Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received the Edward M. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, NBC10 Boston reported. Pelosi is the second recipient, after former President Joe Biden in 2025. She called the award “humbling.”
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What she said
Pelosi spoke about the late Sen. Edward Kennedy rather than last week’s elections, The Boston Globe reported. She said the Affordable Care Act would not have passed without him.
“He was a joy to work with, a joy to observe, a joy to behold in terms of his leadership,” Pelosi said, according to the Globe.
Pelosi became the first woman to serve as House speaker in 2007 and was elected speaker again in January 2019, NBC10 Boston reported. She is finishing her final term after choosing not to seek reelection.
Who attended
Members of the Kennedy family and elected officials attended, including Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the Globe reported. Rep. Katherine Clark also attended. The Globe reported that Clark is poised to become the first woman to serve as House majority leader.
Healey said Pelosi “broke the marble ceiling,” according to the Globe. Victoria Reggie Kennedy and other speakers referred to the Nov. 3 elections, in which the Globe reported Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress.
North Andover High School senior Mariah Eskel was among the featured speakers, NBC10 Boston reported. She co-developed and filed two state legislative initiatives on renewable energy investment.
More coverage is in our Boston news section and Boston politics section.
Sources
- NBC10 Boston: Nancy Pelosi receives the Edward M. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award in Boston
- The Boston Globe: Nancy Pelosi honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at Kennedy Institute on heels of blue wave
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