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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she agrees with critics who say an amendment included in the health care bill passed by the House would additionally limit access to abortion.
The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that while she opposes an anti-abortion amendment to the House version of the health care bill, it was necessary for the measure to pass.
U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a dozen anti-abortion activists outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after a massive protest against the Democrats' health care bill.
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is calling on people to burn effigies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this Halloween, as part of a "Burn in Hell" video contest to protest the health care legislation in Congress.
A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the case is growing stronger for allowing the government to sell health insurance in competition with private companies, contending recent attacks from the industry should dispel any doubts.
Democrats launched a drive at both ends of the Capitol on Wednesday to strip the insurance industry of its decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws, part of an increasingly bare-knuckled struggle over landmark health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House health care overhaul bill now being finalized would allow young adults to stay on their parents' health insurance policies until they're 27.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cast House Republicans as behind the times, or worse, after they suggested that the top American commander in Afghanistan should "put her in her place."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says anyone using harsh rhetoric to raise fears about health care reform should apologize and get on with writing policy, but said there's no reason to single out a Florida Democrat who said Republicans want sick Americans to "die quickly."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the anti-government rhetoric over President Barack Obama's health care reform effort is concerning because it reminds her of the violent debate over gay rights that roiled San Francisco in the 1970s.
President Barack Obama accepted a South Carolina Republican's apology for shouting, "You lie!" during his speech to Congress, and House Democratic leaders showed no interest in sanctions against Rep. Joe Wilson.
Democratic leaders in Congress urged the Obama administration Thursday to quickly produce a plan for winning the war in Afghanistan or risk widespread opposition within the president's own party to a new troop buildup.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there's little support in the country or the Congress for sending more troops to Afghanistan.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent her 256 caucus members home for the August recess armed with pocket cards listing Democratic health care talking points, then started stumping herself, working to convince Americans of what they'd gain under the plan.
A Pennsylvania lawmaker who is a close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's looking unlikely that Congress will pass health care overhaul legislation this year.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says boisterous protests at health care promotions sponsored by Democrats this summer won't derail a massive health overhaul looming when Congress returns to work next month.
Senate Democrats alone cannot pass President Barack Obama's ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care, a top lawmaker acknowledged on Sunday. Republicans said they will continue their opposition to a plan they say is simply a government takeover of private decisions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life.
CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a "very serious" covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she remains hopeful of reaching an agreement with China on a common approach to climate change ahead of a conference in December in Copenhagen, despite considerable pessimism among other members of her congressional delegation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her at a secret 2002 briefing on the use of harsh interrogations in the war on terror.
Reid and Pelosi Meet with Obama on Jobs and Economy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with President Obama Wednesday to discuss job creation and the economy following last week's report that the unemployment rate had climbed to a 26-year high of 9.8 percent.
This blog post is going to be a bit of a mini school lesson. Something that was missed in a lot of the education that we did not get or that if we got we must have missed that day. Since the President mentioned it and it had been on my mind for quite some time now.
Pelosi: Health Insurance Companies The Real "Villains"Forget the Blue Dogs, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday. The real "villains" in the fight for health care reform are insurance companies.
Pelosi: GOP Frightened Of Health Care Reform's Political PowerMore is at stake than the health of the American people in the congressional effort to overhaul the health care system. The loyalty of the American public is up for grabs, too.
Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security financesWASHINGTON – There is no easy fix.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) just moments ago wrapped up what may well be the second worst press conference in the history of the United States. In a performance that was equal parts hysterical finger pointing and Sgt.
Pelosi Lied - Pelosi KNEW! Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months …
Pelosi still hammers ChinaHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a familiar position last week, rising in the well of the House to denounce China's human rights record as she has on dozens of occasions — this time to decry the "hell on earth" the regime has created in Tibet since exiling the Dalai Lama …
Lady of the HouseShe's got three kids, 650,000 constituents, and millions of watching eyes. Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't keep them all happy.
Impeachment fuse is briefly lightedWASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Tuesday beat back a Republican attempt to force them to vote on a divisive resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for "fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" to justify the war in Iraq.
Democrats Prepare To Give Bush Another Blank Check On IraqDemocratic leaders in Congress are quietly preparing to give President Bush essentially everything he wants to keep the Iraq war going for at least another six months without forcing any change in course.
Toy recalls spur call for ousterHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Tuesday for the ouster of the Bush administration's top consumer products regulator, as Democrats seized on an unusual number of high-profile toy recalls this year to roll out a campaign to strengthen federal oversight and increase the number of …
Armenian Genocide: the Lobbying Behind the Congressional ResolutionHow did the world's most powerful body of lawmakers come to feel compelled to register a position on the Armenian genocide, an event that happened almost a century ago? By some accounts, the answer is simple: lobbying.
History shows Armenia resolution faces tough oddsAs candidates, George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, endorsed the Armenian genocide characterization. They did so in statements to Armenian-American voters, a political force in certain regions.
Turkey blames US Jews for genocide billWhen a US Congressional committee approved a resolution recognizing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide, Turkey's reaction was swift and harsh: Blame the Jews.
A tough week for House Speaker Nancy PelosiHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi found herself in a tight spot this week over her support for a resolution condemning the Ottoman Turks' slaughter of Armenians more than 90 years ago.
Bush Urges More Action From Congress - washingtonpost.comPresident Bush called on Congress today to step up efforts to pass a variety of his stalled domestic and security priorities and declared himself open to compromise in the politically charged standoff over expansion of a children's health insurance program that faces a key vote t …
Pre-911 Illegal NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know?House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has admitted knowing for several years about the Bush administration's eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant. She said she was briefed on it when she was ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Nancy Pelosi Says She'll Press on With Turkish ResolutionNancy Pelosi says there has been 'no right time' until now to pass the resolution denouncing Turkey as the cause of over one million dead Armenians. Protests are already happening in Turkey, as a supplied image shows.
NPR : Turkish General Warns U.S. Ties on IceTurkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.
Timing of genocide resolution questioned - CNN.comWASHINGTON (CNN) -- With tensions rising between the United States and Turkey over a resolution that labels the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces "genocide," many are asking why the House is debating the resolution now.
Armenian Genocide Resurrected, Blamed on Ottomans, Turkey's Government is UpsetArmenia's president, Robert Kocharian, is adamant at proving his point - whatever it is! He's looking to bring accountability to Turkey's government for facilitating the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians - he wants these evil acts 'acknowledged fully in U.S. policy toward Turkey'.
Bush calls for expansion of "Protect America" spy billPresident Bush appeared Wednesday at the National Security Agency's (NSA) headquarters to call on Congress to make permanent and expand provisions of the "Protect America Act of 2007." The bill—passed with bipartisan support in August just prior to the Congressional reces …
The Trouble with Impeachment You may recall the scene in Clint Eastwood's 1992 Western Unforgiven where Eastwood's character levels his gun at Gene Hackman's malevolent sheriff, whom he is about to dispatch to hell's lower depths. "I don't deserve this," Hackman protests.
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