Nancy Pelosi

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her spokesman told Metro Weekly on Tuesday evening, Feb. 14. The former House speaker's ...  

One of the theories being forwarded is that the House GOP leadership's retreat on the payroll tax cut extension is actually some kind of clever and diabolical trap for Democrats. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is attempting to turn any ...  

The following comes from the February 7 canon law blog of Ed Peters. In March 2010, I expressed the view that Nancy Pelosi’s protracted and public anti-life conduct, which she repeatedly justifies with (twisted takes on) the Catholic faith, sufficed, in ...  

Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the United States House of Representatives in the 112th Congress, will speak on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, this program will take place in ...  

Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar who resigned in controversy, appears on the fast track to a political comeback — emerging as a star at this weekend's California Democratic convention and lauded by ...  

Did House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi inadvertently cross a legal line by asking for political contributions while on federal property? At a Capitol Hill press conference Thursday, Pelosi was making the case for campaign ...  

He used to fight for the rights of Americans. He used to be funny. But then he started taking money from anonymous donors through his SuperPac. Nancy Pelosi has just released a new ad that makes Stephen Colbert public enemy number 1.  

The irony is so thick you could spread it on toast. Follow me, if you can: Nancy Pelosi released the above fake-smear ad urging viewers to stop Stephen Colbert from going hog-wild with his shady super PAC money, basically continuing the in-joke that the Colbert Report host started last year when he got approval to start a real, honest-to-god super PAC, which he made a major part of an ongoing series on the Report about the evils of super...  

Nancy Pelosi, attack dog? Stephen Colbert, object of a Democratic witch hunt? In a new TV ad, Nancy Pelosi takes aim at Colbert’s Super PAC, suggesting that their former friendship (note picture of her signing his wrist cast) has been ruined ...  

Despite strict rules prohibiting the solicitation of campaign donations from House office buildings, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) very publicly asked for contributions “to elect more reformers to Congress.” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill contended that no rules were broken because “she asked for contributions, not donations. Besides, the whole tenor of her pitch was to encourage people to help the Democratic Party gain more seats so...  

A week of protest, action, but mostly protest -- for pot advocates watching the federal Department of Justice chip away at state-legal medical marijuana, (in the words of an Americans for Safe Access e-mail blast: "San Francisco medical cannabis is under attack!")  

On Monday, Politico asked "Will Pelosi Be A 2012 Asset Or Liability?" This is not a question most national political reporters are asking, as Pelosi has worked hard to be invisible. She and Harry Reid almost never grant TV interviews. Neither ...  

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama chose to embrace so-called “super PACs” (political action committees) for his re-election campaign so that billionaire philanthropists Charles H. Koch and David G. Koch would not “decide who the next President would be.” “The president made a decision, which I think was a wise one, that he was not going to unilaterally disarm and leave the...  

This time it's the Pope, and Pelosi's doing the kissing. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) During this morning’s prayer breakfast in Washington D.C., both President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama gave House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi big ...  

Over the past decade, Pelosi has secured $50 million in earmarks to help build a light-rail project that provides direct access to San Francisco’s Union Square and Chinatown for neighborhoods located south of Market Street. Pelosi’s husband, Paul ...