Nancy Pelosi Announces She Will Not Run For House Democratic Leadership
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will continue to serve in Congress but no longer serve in Democratic House leadership.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will continue to serve in Congress but no longer serve in Democratic House leadership.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi did an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that aired on Tuesday, in which Mitchell inserted obvious Republican talking points about how voters don’t seem to care about women’s rights so much anymore, but are more focused on “crime” and “inflation.”
Today, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy appeared before the House of Representatives. The Trump appointee seemed uprepared to answer even basic questions and contradicted himself on a number of occasions. Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC on Monday to talk about the Trump administration and its attack on the Post Office. The Speaker of the House, however,…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a ’60 Minutes’ interview that there’s ‘nobody in the country who knows better’ than Donald Trump that he shouldn’t be president.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi continues to be a thorn in the side of Donald Trump. She is frustrating him in Washington, and now it has just been announced that she will receive one of the most prestigious honors in politics — the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. This is sure to…
The Associated Press (AP) reports this morning that Donald Trump is planning to do two big things today: Sign into law the bill that Congress passed yesterday funding border security while also keeping the government open, and Declare a national emergency when he appears in the Rose Garden at 10 a.m. for remarks on “the…
Democrats have vowed to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns this year. And they know this is politically popular, as the majority of American voters also want to see the president’s returns and what they will show us about his foreign entanglements, the size of his fortune, and even if he has been a tax cheat….
The U.S. government has been pushed to “the brink of a partial shutdown,†according to the Associated Press (AP).  With both sides unwilling to budge, a compromise solution does not look possible. On the one hand, Donald Trump and his White House aides say that Congress must provide $5 billion to build a wall along the…
The 2018 midterm results show that the American people have rejected Donald Trump, and his agenda. And as Senator Bernie Sanders says, they’ve also rejected “his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and religious bigotry.†Since Democrats will take over control of the House of Representatives in January, Senator Sanders believes it is time for progressives to…
Republicans love to attack Nancy Pelosi just as much as Democrats love to attack Donald Trump. Both of them are seen as party leaders and both are polarizing figures in their own way. But if GOP candidates think that attacking Pelosi is a way to assure victory in November’s midterm elections they may have to…
The first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, gave an interview to CNN and announced “it’s time for new blood” in her party. However, she also believes that in the current political climate it is too risky for her NOT to be at the negotiating table because of the nature of…
“As desperately as President Trump insists that the Special Counsel investigation is a ‘hoax’, these latest indictments build on multiple guilty pleas and indictments of several Trump campaign officials, demonstrating the gravity of the Trump-Russia scandal,” Leader Pelosi said, urging support for Mueller’s investigation to follow the facts.
In one speech, she likely did more work than Trump has done all week, and Republicans could do nothing but tip their caps.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer are urging their caucus to vote “No” on the current CR plan.
“Democrats face a huge battle in the House because they are more extreme,” a House Democratic aide told PoliticusUSA early Monday afternoon.
At her weekly news conference, House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Rep. John Conyers that zero tolerance of sexual harassment means zero tolerance for all and that he must resign.
After Trump tried to play hardball on avoiding a government shutdown, Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that meeting with the President would be a waste of time.
If the GOP continues to embrace Trump and push for policies that put the donor class over the middle class, what happened on Tuesday will happen on a much larger scale in 2018 – and beyond.
It is once again plug your nose week on Capitol Hill as House Republicans have released their tax bill with sweeping odious overhauls that steal away benefits for the poor and middle-class to pay for massive tax cuts for the most wealthy and largest corporations.
At a closed-door meeting with her fellow Democrats, House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi told her caucus that they would take back the House next year if Republicans continue to fail.
Republicans are refusing to renew the CHIP program that provides health insurance to 9 million children until millionaires and billionaires are given a massive tax cut.
The fifth highest-ranking Democrat in the House made headlines when she called for Nancy Pelosi to step aside as House Democratic Leader but lost in Rep. Linda Sanchez’s statement is the fact that she wants Pelosi’s job, which makes the Democratic grumbling about Pelosi totally different from the Republican dysfunction.
“Political survival – what? Who cares? We’re talking about the lives of the American people.”
Trump is dealing with Democrats because he is mad at Ryan and McConnell. Democrats in Congress have figured this out and are using Trump as a weapon to divide the Republican Party.
Trump ignored the recommendations of his own White House and Republican leaders in Congress by quickly agreeing to Democratic demands on the debt ceiling.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called out Republicans on their latest Trumpcare fail, saying, “After seven years of railing against the Affordable Care Act, the moral bankruptcy of Republicans’ agenda has been utterly exposed.”
During an interview on CBS This Morning, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she might have retired if Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election.
When a man with the strategic sense of Donald Trump attacks someone, it’s because they are effective, not because they are not good at their job.
At her weekly press conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) questioned Donald Trump’s fitness for office while pointing out that Trump will be a jobs loser for America.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi praised the “courageous voices” of the people taking to the streets to demand answers and facts, saying House Democrats were behind them and would not “stand down.”
Republicans don’t have any ideas to run on, so they’re going to vilify Pelosi! Oh, you’ve heard this one before. Like, every election cycle. OK. Well Republicans are hoping their base will be stupid enough to buy it again.
The President of the United States is either knowingly handing over highly classified intelligence to a foreign adversary or he isn’t smart enough to know what constitutes classified information.
Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi made a move to tie Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to the Russia scandal by requesting that Ryan insists that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein brief the House on the Comey firing.
The current Republican position is that we destroy our water and air and then make up for it by denying Americans insurance to pay for the resultant medical issues.
Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) didn’t pull any punches when asked about the latest Republican rush to try to pass an Obamacare repeal bill. Pelosi made it clear that Republicans are empowering Democrats and setting themselves up for failure by following the same stupid path that failed last month.
Not that Republicans needed any help failing when it comes to tax reform, but just in case they need cover from their own failures, they can now blame minority Democrats.
Democrats have vowed to block Trump’s tax reform until he releases his own taxes.
With Trump in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal – like a toddler playing with a loaded firearm – Congressional oversight is a necessity.
“Someone with as many hidden secrets as President Trump should have greater respect for the privacy of the American people.”
“I’ve never seen behavior this bizarre on the part of the chairman,†Nancy Pelosi told TODAY
As Nunes refuses to back away from an investigation he can’t be trusted to run, Democrats continue to put pressure on him to step aside.
Both Democrats and Republicans are now calling on Devin Nunes to step aside from the Trump-Russia investigation.
After Donald Trump awoke Saturday morning to accuse President Obama of illegally wiretapping him, Pelosi’s response was to call for an independent investigation of Trump’s Russia connections.
Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) connected the dots during her weekly news conference and explained why Attorney General Sessions’ lies before Congress are a big problem for Trump.
In the wake of the Trump administration’s attempts to silence the FBI, Nancy Pelosi called for both the DOJ and Congress to launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s conversations with the FBI.
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shook up Super Bowl Sunday by demanding a full FBI probe into what the Russians have on President Trump during an interview on Meet The Press.
The country is just 13 days into the new administration, and a psychological exam of the new president is already long overdue.
“House Republicans’ agenda is clear: intimidate and silence anyone who would raise questions about the President-elect’s vast conflicts of interest.”
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer along with Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi are rallying and leading a national day of action on January 15 to save healthcare.
When Trump attacks “the failed ObamaCare disaster, with its poor coverage” he ignores the 20 million + who now have coverage thanks to Obamacare
Millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump after he promised not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid†and “he must be held to his promises.â€
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fended off a challenge from Tim Ryan by a vote of 134-63 Wednesday morning, in a closed door caucus meeting.
Leader Pelosi vowed to fight to restore the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, “We will fight to restore Democratic majorities in the Senate and the House, and I tell you this: We can do it.”
“Disarm hate!” “We’re with you!”
These were the chants that accompanied the Democratic House Caucus’s press event to pressure House Republicans to allow real gun violence prevention legislation.
During this historic, courageous sit in — Democrats found not only their spine but the knowledge that they carry moral authority on this issue — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised Congressmen John Lewis.
A new analysis finds that Democrats will have a chance of winning back the House if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz is the Republican presidential nominee.
On the heels of a Congressional delegation trip to Flint, Michigan, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was asked about the Republican charge made last night during the FOX GOP debate in Detroit that Democrats are “politicizing” the Flint water situation.
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more funding for a healthcare system
Democrats are proving that they wouldn’t put Ted Cruz out if he were on fire by not lifting a finger to help Cruz as he is being engulfed by Republican birther hysteria.
It is apparent that Democrats are on pace to repeat the electoral debacle of 2010 that allowed conservatives to take control of Congress
As House Republicans continue to protect terrorists’ legal ability to purchase deadly weapons, the facts are staggering: according to the GAO, over the last 11 years, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the United States.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) needs Democratic votes to pass the Republican spending bill, but his first proposal was rejected by Democrats because it contained over 30 poison pill policy riders.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has named 6 strong pro-choice Democrats to the Select Investigative Panel on abortion providers.
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) is suggesting that the way House Republicans will defeat the extremists in their party is to give Democrats power by forming a coalition to elect a bipartisan Speaker of the House.
After Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) admitted that Republicans lied about the purpose of the Benghazi investigation, several top Democrats are calling out the House Republicans’ abuse of power and calling for an immediate end to the investigation.
When House Republicans announced a new witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, Democrats were swift and decisive in their response
Pelosi introduced Sec. Clinton saying, “… when she enters the Oval Office, she would be one of the most prepared people to do so in recent history.”
After Southern Republicans demanded that a vote be included on whether or not the Confederate flag should be displayed at federal cemeteries as part of the bill to fund the Department of Interior, Speaker Boehner was forced to pull his own bill, and Democrats pounced and proposed a resolution that would remove any state flag that contains the Confederate flag from the Capitol.
The U.S. House derailed President Obama’s trade bill on Friday. The chamber rejected an amendment designed to save the trade bill 302-126. That measure would have granted financial aid to workers displaced as a result of the trade agreement. However, skeptical members of both parties struck down that amendment, leaving Obama’s controversial trade bill “stuck at the station”, according…
The White House’s response to the Republican-led Senate’s lead-by-crisis on the Patriot Act was to remind everyone that the President worked with Congress to craft a reformed version of the Patriot Act a year and a half ago
Republicans are making much of their “balanced” budget but this “work harder for less” budget is not really balanced at all
Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.
“America was founded on the principle of religious freedom.” It’s just a shame he thinks only corporations have that freedom
Republicans are more than willing to waste money to help the rich and corporations, but money spent protecting the rest of us is “wasteful”
Just as Speaker Boehner has become synonymous with fail, to the degree that even the beltway admits regularly that he can’t get done or won’t get done what he says he will or what he needs to do for the party, now the entire Congress is infested with the stench of GOP fail. Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office has sent out a memo mocking Republicans for the fail.
In a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation, the US House overwhelmingly passed a Medicare payment overhaul bill on Thursday.
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
Democrats are showing who’s really in charge of the House by vowing to protect John Boehner from the tea party coup that is building to overthrow him.
What makes Netanyahu and Republicans ‘condescending insult’ even more infuriating and egregious is that he is demanding half-a-billion dollars more from American taxpayers for Israel’s military; more on that later.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that he would allow for a clean funding bill for Homeland Security on Tuesday.
Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings
In a display of failed Republican leadership, John Boehner and House Republicans could only pass a one week funding bill for Homeland Security.
Only four legislative days left. Tick tock. Nancy Pelosi called on Republicans to honor their sacred oath to protect the American people.
Pelosi pointed out the obvious to delusional Republicans: It’s time to get back to work and stop playing games.
Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”
“Republicans are taking an extremely dangerous and cavalier approach to the safety of American families,” Pelosi charged, citing a new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors on President Obama’s immigration actions.
A handful of key Republican Senators are side-eying the plan House Republicans put forth on Friday in yet another effort to kill President Obama’s immigration executive actions, worried that the House Republicans defunding action may lead to a shutdown of government including the Department of Homeland Security.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is on to Speaker John Boehner and the Republican Party’s plans to use the Department of Homeland Security as a hostage for their political agenda.
In a tweet that was read live on the air by Joe’s co-host Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough compared the Senate report to Rolling Stone’s much-maligned campus rape story involving the University of Virginia.
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that House GOP will be using taxpayer money to sue President Obama over the implementation of the ACA (aka, Obamacare)- a suit that nearly every reasonable person has told them has no merit and a suit that two law firms dumped the GOP over.
Nancy Pelosi commended the President for his bold action, and noting that it falls well within the constitutional and legal authority of his office.
Pelosi detailed the threats Republicans have been making against President Obama for doing what all modern presidents before him have done, and then urged people not to listen to Republicans on immigration reform, saying we “welcome President Obama’s meaningful, courageous and imminent action.”
The Treasury Department announced that the 2014 deficit as a percentage of GDP has reached its smallest point since 2007, which also happens to be below the average deficit of the last 40 years.
Today marks an important day for marriage equality in the United States as the Supreme Court refused to review several circuit court rulings that strike down state bans on same sex marriage.
We are supposed to believe that “Republicans are working to create jobs for Americans. Democrats are working to save their own.”
The record of failure and shame continues to grow for House Republicans as they have passed fewer laws than last year’s do nothing Congress and left town sooner than any Congress since 1960.
CNN tried to ignore Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against Obama and Republican dreams of impeachment, but House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi would not let them get away with it.
A panel of kick butt women rocked the DC Working Families Summit, with refreshing candor. It was moderated by Mika Brzenzinski, and included Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Dr. Judith Rodin, Katherine Phillips, Debra Lee and Gloria Steinem
Come Tuesday, May 27, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor and his merry band of bigots will have ceded all Hispanic/Latino votes to the Democrats come the November 4th mid-terms. Just ask California Republican Jeff Denham.
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined the list of Democrats who aren’t about to sit back and let Republicans float their bogus Benghazi conspiracies unchallenged.