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There's an American leader whose words resonate on the global stage. Who draws attention in foreign capitals. Who carries a message from the United States by simply arriving.

It's not just President Donald Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is emerging as an alternative ambassador abroad, an emissary for bedrock democratic values and the promise of stability that some see as diminishing in the Trump era.

The House was already well on its way to passing a crucial budget agreement Thursday when Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled aside Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer in a hallway outside the chamber.

Democrats had already cast 216 votes for the bill, Pelosi told Hoyer. But two more votes would send a message: that the party was so united, it could pass a compromise negotiated with President Trump and Republicans with an absolute majority of the House.

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not believe President Trump can be removed through impeachment — the only way to do it, she said this week, is to defeat him in 2020 by a margin so "big" he cannot challenge the legitimacy of a Democratic victory.

That is something she worries about.

By: Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer

Tears welled up in the eyes of the actress from "To Kill a Mockingbird" after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) glided into the party.

"I very firmly believe that the arts are going to bind Americans together," Pelosi declared to the actors, journalists and congressional staffers gathered Monday night at the Oval Room restaurant in honor of the Broadway cast.

"For a moment, for a while, they're unified in a common experience," she said, adding, for good measure, a paraphrase of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley: "The greatest force for good is the imagination.