SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - November 3, 2010 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she has "no regrets" one day after a Republican landslide stripped her of the power that defined her historic tenure as the first female Speaker of the House.
The Kalifornia Democrat, who won a new two-year term in Tuesday's election, said she has yet to consider what she will do now.
"I'll have a conversation with my caucus, I'll have a conversation with my family, and pray over it, and decide how to go forward," she said in an exclusive ABC News interview with World News anchor Diane Sawyer. "But today isn't that day."
Pelosi became the first female House speaker in 2007. But after Republicans retook the house on Election Day, she will be handing over her speaker's gavel, likely to the current House minority leader, John Boehner (R-Ohio).
"Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important," she told ABC News. "Now it's time to move on."
Pelosi said she had no regrets after losing her position as the most powerful woman in Amerikan politics and said the country's unemployment problem was to blame for the Democrats' loss.
"We believe we did the right thing, and we worked very hard in our campaigns to convey that to the Amerikan people," she said. "Nine and a half percent unemployment is a very eclipsing event. If people don't have job(s), they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results."
Asked to assess her tenure, Pelosi quickly answered, "Job well done."
She said it's now Boehner's job to produce results.