Nancy Pelosi is facing the first serious challenge to her election in decades.

Veteran politicians say there’s virtue in experience but differ over the need for term limits.

Barbara Boxer decided she was done. Entering her 70s, fresh off reelection to the U.S. Senate, she determined her fourth term would be her last .

“I just felt it was time,” Boxer said. “I wanted to do other things.”

Besides, she knew the Democratic bench was amply stocked with many bright prospects, including California’s then-attorney general , Kamala Harris, who succeeded Boxer in Washington en route to her selection as Joe Biden’s vice president .

When Boxer retired in 2017, after serving 24 years in the Senate, she walked away from one of the most powerful and privileged positions in American politics,

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