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Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She was the first woman to hold the office and to-date has been the highest-ranking female politician in American history. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco, since 1987. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House. She served as the House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, and was House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th and 109th Congresses. Pelosi is the ...
While Republicans were getting bashed Tuesday in their home districts for threatening Medicare, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was in full pander bear mode to seniors in her home district Tuesday afternoon.
Just heard The Min Leader tell the Aging in America convention here in SF that "many of the core initiatives for America's seniors are in jeopardy."
As in: The Republican budget proposal, the Min Leader said, which "ends Medicare as we know it. It makes the wrong choices," she said, "while it gives big tax breaks to big oil."
Seniors would have to pay roughly $6,000 a year more if ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is firing back at House Republican leaders, saying they were slow to take interest in legislation to create jobs. The Republicans on Wednesday demanded an open forum on the jobs issue, months after House Democrats approved a $154 billion package with not a single Republican vote in favor of it.“In her most recent meeting with Leader Boehner earlier this month, the speaker raised the subject of jobs but did not receive a positive response,” said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Ms. Pelosi. “The speaker welcomes the change in the Republican leadership and ...
cici - in poll Nancy Pelosi Doug Ross has been on this story and broke some news yesterday about the millions of dollars - that's right, millions - that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rung up in travel using military aircraft.Now we learn from Doug that it appears Pelosi is using military jets to facilitate the personal travel of her children and grandchildren. No member of congress involved, just the junketing of her kids:Since Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker in 2006, she's rung up millions in military travel expensesWorse still, she also appears to have requisitioned entire flights for the personal use of her children and ...
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