Publicly, at least, Pelosi won't even nod to the possibility of losing the speakership.
The most important win for women is the speakership of the House of Representatives.
The Speakership dates back under its present title to 1377, when Sir Thomas Hungerford was appointed.
But most Republicans say it's premature to say that this episode means Boehner's speakership is in jeopardy.
Presumably Boehner feared a challenge from the right, possibly spearheaded by his deputy Eric Cantor, that might have cost him his Speakership.
And the speakership of Dennis Hastert also appears to be at stake.
"This is not about keeping the majority, it is about keeping the speakership, " a Republican strategist who works with the congressional leadership told CNN.
It is hard to imagine a government of one party, with a majority in the House of Commons, being content to allow its rivals to hold the speakership.
His opponent, Antonio Villaraigosa, has risen rapidly from a background of left-wing politics in Latino East Los Angeles to the speakership of the California Assembly between 1998 and 2000.
Congress's first act under Mr Paniagua's speakership was to reinstate three Constitutional Court judges sacked in 1997 for ruling that Mr Fujimori could not stand for re-election this year.
But at Thursday afternoon's Capitol meeting, House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich asserted that Gingrich would emerge as a stronger figure after overcoming the latest attempt to strip him of the speakership.
Should Boehner do this, it could very well come at the price of his Speakership which, given his poor display of political savvy these past few weeks, might be an appropriate result.
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He is boxed in between two opposing forces: majority public opinion and the 100 or so most conservative members of his party in the House, the very lawmakers to whom he owes his speakership.
So last month, when Sudan's President Omar Bashir, an ex-general, ordered the army to remove Mr Turabi from the speakership, the Egyptians were delighted and, together with Libya, began to advance a new peace plan.
Does anyone imagine that it is a coincidence that Speaker John Boehner has disappeared into the background in the final days of the fiscal cliff debate so as to avoid another misstep that might cost him the Speakership?
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