House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Trump signs largely symbolic pre-existing conditions order amid lawsuit MORE (D-Calif.) said Sunday she supports naming the Russell Senate Office Building after the late Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainAnalysis: Biden victory, Democratic sweep would bring biggest boost to economy The Memo: Trump's strengths complicate election picture Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE (R-Ariz.).

“I think it would be a great tribute, because then for decades to come, everyone who came to Washington would know the very special place that John McCain held — has held and will continue to hold in our country,” she said by phone on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Nancy Pelosi says naming the Russell Senate Office Building after John McCain would be a "great tribute."



"Decades to come, everyone who came to Washington would know the very special place that John McCain held ... and will continue to hold"https://t.co/rrM65wKUMi #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/ccxEXCnRnv — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 26, 2018

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McCain died of brain cancer at the age of 81 on Saturday, which Stephanopoulos noted was nine years to the day his friend, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), died.

Pelosi said it’s a remarkable coincidence.

“But maybe the intensity of their lives just determined that that would be the case,” she said.

“In any event, I know that Ted Kennedy and so many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whether they were in complete agreement with John McCain were all in agreement that he was formidable, had enormous integrity and was acting on behalf of our country and what he truly believed.”