After 25 years in Washington, nearly half of it as the highest-ranking woman in American politics, Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi has learned the art of when to attack and when to pull back. The Democratic House minority leader, in an interview in her hometown last week, was asked about former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's recent comment that President Obama has "lost his mojo" on the campaign trail and shows "no life, no personality and no...
(CNSNews.com) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that the Supreme Court will vote 6-3 to uphold the constitutionality of President Barack Obamas health care law, meaning that one member of the court's 4-vote conservative wing--which includes Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts--will side with the administration on the challenges to the legislation that the...
Which is more than the 23% difference Dems frequently cite. Via Andrew Stiles: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) refused to answer questions about Senate Democrats paying their female staff members less than male staffers on Thursday. She may have ducked the question because a Washington Free Beacon analysis shows she pays the women on her staff $26,606 less per year on average. According to publicly available salary data at the...
President Barack Obama today issued his annual proclamation declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month just as Pride parades and festivals get under way in cities across the country. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D ...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has described an appeals court's ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as a “significant step” toward gay rights. On Thursday, a 3-judge Boston appeals court unanimously upheld a lower district ...
By Elizabeth Vlock House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) held a press conference Friday morning attacking Republican House members for stalling passage of the Senate’s bipartisan Transportation Bill. Referencing the jobs report released earlier Friday morning, Pelosi highlighted the correlation between the need for...
During a press conference Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) attacked what she described as Republican obstructionism stalling the bipartisan Senate Transportation Bill. Pelosi discouraged the notion that the Republican legislative agenda was to make President Obama look powerless. Instead, Pelosi argued that the Republican agenda is to do...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Friday discussed the need for America, despite the struggles European nations are currently experiencing, to pass comprehensive legislation to improve global and domestic confidence in the American economy. Pelosi argued that no matter what the global financial economic landscape may be, the most important...
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday defended her push to permanently extend "middle class" tax cuts to people making up to $1 million, saying that drawing the line at $250,000 hasn't worked. During her weekly ...
A high-level brawl over taxes broke out between top House leaders Thursday as Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tussled over a proposal to let rates for the rich expire at the end of this year. In a news conference Thursday ...
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (; born March 26 ... while the Democrats would conduct vigorous oversight of Bush administration policy, an impeachment investigation was "off the table". (A week earlier, she had told the Washington Post ...
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday praised Rep. Silvestre Reyes after his primary election loss to Beto O'Rourke. She also praised O'Rourke. "Congressman Silvestre Reyes' career has been defined by service - to the security of our ...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has taken some heat of late for her suggestion that Congress extend the Bush tax-cuts for Americans who earn less than $1 million per year. That’s a big break for top earners. President Obama has said he ...
Does Carol Regret Supporting Pelosi 98% of the time?
Concord, NH – After serving in Congress as then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s puppet, Carol Shea-Porter stumbled this weekend over a simple question of whether or not she would support her again. Shea-Porter first refused to answer WMUR’s Josh McElveen’s question, then became “annoyed,” and finally said “I don’t know.”
“Carol Shea-Porter ignored N.H. voters and instead served as Pelosi’s...
Who'd have thought it? Progressive stalwarts like Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dick Durbin are pushing the same radical austerity plan as Jamie Dimon, CEO of troubled megabank JPMorgan Chase, and Robert Rubin, the Clinton Treasury ...
al.comPelosi does mom's day with mothers in the militaryWashington Post (blog)By Al Kamen House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), landed in Qatar Friday to spend Mother's Day in the region with mothers serving in the Armed Forces there. (Mark Wilson - Getty Images) Can't think of what to get mom for Mother's Day?US Rep. Terri Sewell in Qatar as part of congressional delegation visital.com (blog)Pelosi leads congressional delegation to U...
TIMENancy Pelosi Ties 'War On Women' To Student Loan DebateHuffington PostHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday slammed Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for proposing on Wednesday to keep down the costs of student loan interest rates by pulling money from what he called "one of the slush funds in the ...Pelosi, Democrats raise money off Boehner remarkUSA TODAYPelosi calls plan to gut public health fund another assault on...
Fox News (blog)This week on Fox News Sunday: (5/13/12)Fox News (blog)We'll get details about the mission, and what it means in the fight against terrorism going forward, with the Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Segment 1: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D) California / Chair, Intelligence Committee Then, ...
Your Mail: U.S. is under attackAlexandria Town TalkBased on the senseless attacks by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Nancy Pelosi and their allies in the liberal mainstream media, it is evident that the communist Democrats are running scared. America is at a crossroads where we must ...