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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a congressional delegation on Saturday to Iraq, where they met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Pelosi led seven other Democrats and one Republican to Baghdad to "thank our troops, assess progress on redeployment, and meet [with] Iraqi and U.S. officials," she said on her Twitter page.

The stopover comes after the top House Democrat announced that she'd led the congressional delegation -- or, "CODEL" -- to Qatar on Friday.

Pelosi has a history of leading Mother's Day weekend trips to visit troops in war zones. As Speaker, she traveled to Iraq that weekend in 2009, and headed to Afghanistan in 2010.