The view from the press gallery of the House of Representatives is usually a boring one. It includes a sea of empty seats below with a member of what is often derided as “the lower body” of Congress droning on about some pedestrian local issue.
It takes some momentous matter to alter that view. One occurred the other day when a grandmother of six named Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as history?s first woman speaker of the House, second in line of succession to the presidency behind only Vice President Dick Cheney.
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