(2006-05-31) — Although the Republican National Committee chairman this week called her “a prehistoric Democrat,” and Rep. Nancy Pelosi referred to herself as “an Italian-American Catholic grandmother,” archaeologists in Rome today said there is no conclusive connection between Rep. Pelosi and a recently unearthed 3,000-year-old female skeleton.

While some Congressional Republicans point out that the House Minority Leader and the 10th century B.C. skeleton have never been seen in public together, archaeologists call that evidence “circumstantial and speculative.”

“We would have to take DNA samples to be sure,” said the unnamed researcher, who noted that “just in case, the dig team has begun referring to the ancient bones as ‘Madame Speaker’.”

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