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Nancy Pelosi is back on her home turf to push a health care reform bill she says will help uninsured and insured patients alike.
The woman who made history two years ago by becoming the first female speaker of the House has been re-elected to that post. House colleagues today chose Nancy Pelosi to continue as speaker.
For those hard-to-please people on your holiday gift list this year, consider some unusual presents: the chance to hang out with Bill O'Reilly, sing with Aretha Franklin or tour the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi.
A U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight civilians, including several children, an Iraqi police official said Thursday. The U.S. military said the assault targeted al-Qaida fighters but acknowledged that children died.
The Democratic-led House, in an election-year showdown with the White House, on Thursday effectively denied President Bush a vote any time soon on a free trade agreement with Colombia, a key South American ally.
Nancy Pelosi is scrambling to quell Democratic infighting. Two states broke the rules with earlier-than-allowed primaries, and two candidates are dueling for an advantage among superdelegates who could hold the key to the nomination.
Walking arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, the U.S. House speaker lent her support Friday to the Tibetan cause, calling China's crackdown in Tibet "a challenge to the conscience of the world."
Nancy Pelosi crashed through a glass ceiling when she became the first female House speaker a year ago. That turned out to be the easy part.
The political fortunes of new congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid soared last year, and financial disclosure forms revealed Thursday they're also doing well in personal money matters.
Nancy Pelosi won her biggest victory in her first 100 days as speaker by making peace among her own House Democrats. Mollifying moderates and staving off liberal defections, she narrowly wrung passage of legislation setting a troop withdrawal deadline from Iraq.
Swept into the most powerful political job ever held by a U.S. woman, Nancy Pelosi embarked on a jubilant victory lap with children and grandchildren in tow and a soundtrack by Tony Bennett: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
Democrats came to reclaim both the House and Senate Thursday with lawmakers on both sides promising cooperation, despite sharp differences, to launch the 110th Congress on a productive note.
Members of Congress are in line for a $3,300 pay raise effective Jan. 1 unless they block it, and Democrats said Thursday they intend to try.
Democrats embraced Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the first female House speaker in history on Thursday, then quickly snubbed her, selecting Steny Hoyer of Maryland as majority leader against her wishes.
Democrats went behind closed doors Thursday to pick a top lieutenant to speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, hoping to quiet a politically costly family feud that intensified just days after they reclaimed the House from Republicans.
He mocked her as "a secret admirer" of tax cuts and an opponent of measures crucial to keeping Americans safe, warning that "terrorists win and America loses" if her Democrats prevailed on Election Day. She called him dangerous and in denial, an "emperor with no clothes" who has misled the country about Iraq and presided over an economy that still fails many. Now, President Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are making nice.
He mocked her as "a secret admirer" of tax cuts and an opponent of measures crucial to keeping Americans safe, warning that "terrorists win and America loses" if her Democrats prevailed on Election Day. She called him dangerous and in denial, an "emperor with no clothes" who has misled the country about Iraq and presided over an economy that still fails many. Now, President Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are making nice.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi — soon to be Madam Speaker — says she had something other than politics on her mind when her phone rang early Wednesday morning.
President Bush, waking up on Wednesday to a new balance of power in Washington, picked up the phone and invited House speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi to lunch.
Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours. Time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.
White House release of a previously secret intelligence assessment depicting a growing terrorist threat gives both political parties new ammunition in the election-season fight over the Iraq war.
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi urged colleagues in July to vote against a trade agreement with Oman, proclaiming that Democrats' first order of business if they win control of the House this fall will be stopping companies from moving jobs overseas.
If they retake control of Congress, Democrats will act quickly to increase the minimum wage, lower prescription drug costs and slash interest rates on student loans, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday.
The House on Friday rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq after a ferociously partisan debate, forcing lawmakers in both parties to go on record on a major issue in re-election campaigns nationwide.
Add political banishment to the list of problems confronting Rep. William Jefferson, ensnared in a bribery scandal that fellow Democrats hope to turn to their election-year advantage.
Dateline: Cesspool on the Potomac, D.C. November 19, 2009. In a stunning public announcement today, a historic step has been taken to ensuring the sustenance of the country's 69,000,000 Plantation Voters.
Teabagger children's books feature an evil, child-hating Nancy Pelosi and a President Marxus ObundusThe weirdest children's book ever? It's a close run thing, between Katharine DeBrecht's first book – Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! – and her second: Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!
Baltimore, MD, A year ago before the election, I joined Newsvine to express my discomfort with the election and how it was going for Barack Obama. I didn't want Barack Obama to become President of the United States for various reasons but not because he is black (I am black).
Tea Party Group Cancels Plan To Burn Perriello And Pelosi In EffigyThe plan by the Danville TEA Party Patriots to burn Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy -- a sort of Tea-Party Burning Man -- has been called off, Greg Sargent reports:
O'Reilly Warns of a Coming 'Tax Revolt': 'Pelosi Will be Bobbing Up and Down in the Boston Harbor' This statement appeared to be too much, even for Glenn Beck, who replied, "Uh, I don't think that's necessary.
To Protest Obamacare, San-Francisco Holds a Sick-InLiberals hold sit-ins. When protesting Obamacare, a 'sit-in' didn't seem appropriate: a 'sick-in' did. Carrying with them their crutches, bandages, and fake blood, a crowd gathered today by the Ferry Building in San Francisco to protest what Obamacare would do to our health.
A Conversation with Nancy Pelosi and David GergenWatch the entire conversation about healthcare.
To Create Jobs Today We Must Focus On Creating A New Energy Grid!By focusing on solutions we have available today, and utilizing resources we readily have available in America such as Natural Gas, we will reduce our unemployment rate of 10.2%.
Pelosi v. Madison on the powers of Congress under the ConstitutionThe constitution grants specific and limited powers to the federal government. When asked which of these powers authorizes Congress to force Americans, under penalty of law, to buy insurance. Nancy Pelosi responded "Are you serious" and refused to respond further.
Exodus 22:18 "Suffer not a witch to live." (Bible reference and quote courtesy of Jim Butcher from "White Night"--a novel from the Dresden files. "Skip, you can't possibly dare go THERE." Oh, you poor innocent. You have no idea of the things I dare.
The Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate spins madly, and then stops every week pointing at a conspicuous example of stupidity/evil in the previous week.
Healthcare Passes; Could This be The Democrats Defining Social Policy Achievement?WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.
CNN Poll 72% of Americans Opposed to Pelosi/Obama HR 3962 Healthcare BillWith House Democrats racing to pass their 2,000-plus page health care reform bill this weekend, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that an overwhelming majority of those surveyed -- 72 percent -- want Congress either to make major changes, start over from scratch, or simply st …
A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors by Dennis PragerThose of us who are not true believers in expanded government are certain of the following:
The Madness of Queen NancyDoes everyone but Pelosi understand what is going on in the country? Is the democratic party going to allow its radicals to take it off the cliff?
House health care bill wins 2 top backersWashington (CNN) -- The push to overhaul health care received a major boost Thursday as the American Medical Association and AARP endorsed legislation drafted by top House Democrats.
Dems prep attacks for GOP challengers"Tim Bishop is the one who is outsourcing attacks on a successful businessman, to the DCCC and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi," said Christopher Maloney, Altschuler's campaign manager.
I have listened to Pundits on both sides of the aisle;Republican and Democrat(Although these guys are more socialist now,but they won't call themselves that because of the stigma attached.), and this is one of the reasons I do not believe in the Democratic Party anymore.
Is Forcing Americans to Buy Health Insurance Constitutional?I do believe that the members of the house and senate are overstepping the constitutional boundries when they determine to force people to buy a product or service.They site U.S.
Health bill could slip into next year"Democrats have blown so many deadlines for getting health reform done this year that insiders are increasingly skeptical they can finish by year's end — and some even suggest the effort might slip to a new deadline, before the State of the Union address.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi - Affordable Health Care for America ActWhether you love the current health care reform proposal, or hate it, this page from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's www.speaker.gov site is a great source of information, including links to the text of the bill, bill summaries, fact sheets, and an implementation timeline.
This award represents my unauthorized reincarnation of the old "Laugh In" "award" for conspicuous stupidity in the previous week (unconnected to the old "Laugh In" in any way, other than concept and the use of Dick Martin as a visual aid to the imagination).
Kucinich Wants His Single Payer Amendment Back in the Health Care BillRep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was none too happy when House leaders stripped his single-payer provision from their $894 billion health reform proposal. Today, he's urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to reinstate it.
Fox & Friends Laugh Over Pelosi "Burn In Hell" Heckler (VIDEO)This morning on Fox & Friends, hosts Steve Doocy and Alisyn Camerota jokingly reenacted the exchange between a heckler and Nancy Pelosi Thursday.
House Health Reform Bill Outlaws Treating Domestic Violence As A Pre-Existing ConditionA less-noticed — but still significant — part of the bill would ensure that insurers in the individual market would no longer treat domestic violence as a pre-existing condition:
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