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Pelosi Will Run for House Minority Leader: Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- Following a brief deliberation period, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will run for the House minority leadership position. While Democrats appear to be split on Pelosi's future as a party leader, the California representative says that she has no regrets about her party's performance -- aka "shellacking" -- earlier this week in the midterm elections. Naturally, Pelosi tweeted the announcement: .bbpBox594181965750272 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/106260336/tweetback3.jpg) #ffffff;padding:20px;} ...
Experts Rank Pelosi Among Greatest House Speakers
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 4) -- Nancy Pelosi may be moving out of her spacious office in the Capitol, but the woman who broke the marble ceiling to become the first female speaker of the House has already moved into the ranks of the most effective legislators in history. "While right now she is overshadowed by this thumping, she's going to rank quite high in the pantheon of modern speakers" of the last 100 years, said Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Only Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving speaker in history whose parliamentary ...
Man Arrested for Allegedly Threatening Nancy Pelosi
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 7) - The FBI arrested a northern California man Wednesday for allegedly making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. Charges against the man have yet to be disclosed, but they are expected to be filed in federal court in California. Several federal officials said the man made dozens of calls to Pelosi's homes in California and Washington, as well as to her husband's business office. They said he recited her home address and said if she wanted to see it again, she would not support ...
Memo to the Left: The Public Health Insurance Option Is Dead, Get Over It
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAs the climactic votes approach this week on health care, some groups on the left seem more interested in throwing a wrench into the process than putting a landmark law on the books. MoveOn.org is in the latter camp. It is asking its 5 million members to back primary challengers to Democrats who don't support the reform package, and at least one union is sending similar signals. MoveOn also is running an ad featuring Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Which side of history will you be on?" it asks. The spot starts Tuesday on ...
Congressional Agenda for 2010: Controversy and Budget Busting
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen Congress starts its work for the year Tuesday, Democrats in Washington will begin working on two distinct types of legislation leading up to the crucial mid-term elections in 2010 -- the bills they want to do, and the bills they have to do. At the top of the list of to-do's that Democrats are eager to tackle are passing a final version of health care reform, along with a swift pivot to dealing with the economy, or as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to it, "Jobs, jobs, jobs." In addition to jobs and health care, a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tells Politics Daily ...
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