Nancy Pelosi

Dem Leaders Split Over Heated Committee Chair Race

The Hill | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Dingell, Energy Committee Chair, Pelosi Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Waxman Dingell, Steny Hoyer, Politics News

The top two Democratic leaders in the House are expected to vote for different lawmakers to lead the Energy and Commerce Committee in the next Congres...

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Can We Stop Pretending California is 'Green,' Now?

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Green Living, California Wildfires, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Auto Industry, Nancy Pelosi, Green News
Jeffrey Feldman

Americans everywhere will continue to have sympathy with all those who suffer in your fires, but if you want us to take your claims to being 'green' seriously, start getting your suicidal groundwater abuse under control, California.

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Pelosi Pledges Aid To Automakers, Strings Attached

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nancy Pelosi, Auto Industry, House of Representatives, Auto Industry Bailout, Pelosi Auto Industry, Politics News

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday the House would provide aid to the ailing U.S. auto industry, requiring that the industry ...

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Democrats Telegraphing Upcoming Automaker Bailout?

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Robert Nardelli, Rick Wagoner, Economy, Nancy Pelosi, Ford, Automaker Bailout Criteria, Cars, Financial Crisis, Congress, Business News

WASHINGTON — The auto industry and business groups mounted a lobbying onslaught Thursday to thwart GOP opposition to a Senate vote next week on ...

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Crash Test

Amy Ephron | Posted 11.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Gmac, Chrysler, Union Shop, Cerberus Capital Management, General Motors, Hybrid, Bail-Out, Nancy Pelosi, John Snow, Financial Crisis, Harry Reid, Henry Paulson, Auto Industry Bailout, Green News
Amy Ephron

I know that 600,000 jobs hang in the balance over the auto industry bailout, but wait, I have a solution. Why don't we convert the factories to alternative energy sector plants?

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Pelosi's Power Reigns Supreme: 'Even Gingrich Pales In Comparison'

Politico | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Speaker of the House Pelosi, Pelosi Power, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Leadership, Pelosi's Power, Nancy Pelosi Power, Politics News

As Pelosi enters her third year as speaker, by any measure, she has become the most powerful woman in U.S. political history and is now preparing to w...

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Democrats urge federal stake in big auto companies

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Pelosi GM, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Pelosi Automakers, Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Cars, Financial Crisis, Automaker Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats are pushing legislation to send $25 billion in emergency loans to the beleaguered auto industry in exchange...

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Democrats Ready Emergency Legislation To Aid Auto Industry

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CARL HULSE | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auto Industry, George Bush, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Auto Industry Bailout, Democrats, Emergency Auto Rescue Legislation, Auto Industry Rescue Legislation, Politics News

Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were ready to push emergency legislation to aid the imperiled auto industry when lawmakers re...

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Lame Duck Session Called For By Pelosi

NY Times | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pelosi Auto Industry Bailout, Lame Duck Session, Pelosi Lame Duck Session, Auto Industry Bailout, Nancy Pelosi, Automobile Industry Bailout, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Tuesday for a lame-duck session of Congress next week, and a life-preserver of some sort for America's imperiled ...

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Rahm Emanuel: Barack Obama's Sarah Palin?

Jeff Gates | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jennifer Flowers, White House Chief of Staff, Irgun, Israel Lobby, Joe Biden, Richard Durbin, Charles Percy, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Sayanim, Paul Findley, Nancy Pelosi, Zionist, Sara Palin, Harry Reid, Aipac, Politics News
Jeff Gates

Known in DC as a pro-Israel hardliner, he joins Pelosi in bringing to the Middle East peace process a record of support for Tel Aviv's targeted assassinations of Palestinian political leaders.

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Adding Teeth to a Detroit Bailout

Laurie David | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Detroit, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Automaker, Henry Waxman, Barbara Boxer, Edward Markey, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Laurie David

Now that Detroit is begging for a handout to save itself, Congress should demand in return a serious, long-overdue increase in fuel efficiency standards for new cars and trucks.

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Pelosi Wants New Economic Stimulus Plan To Include Green Measures

Grist | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

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In her post-election press conference yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) affirmed her desire that a new economic stimulus plan -- which ...

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CEOs, Pelosi Talk About More Aid For Automakers

Reuters | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, Automakers, Chrysler, Automakers Bailout, General Motors, Gm, Economy, Nancy Pelosi, Ford, Financial Crisis, Automakers Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House left the door open on Thursday for potentially backing additional financial aid for U.S. automakers as industry...

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Demoratic Battle Brewing: Waxman Trying To Unseat Powerful Energy Chairman

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Henry Waxman, Waxman Dingell, John Dingell, Global Warming, House Energy Committee, Committee Chairmanships, House Committee Chairmanships, Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A top Democratic aide says Rep. Henry Waxman, a liberal ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is challenging veteran Rep. John Dingell as H...

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What Happens If Obama Wins Tonight?

Brian Ross | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home

Read More: mybarackobama.com, Obama Campaign, Barack Obama, Congress, Election Day, Nancy Pelosi, Ronald Reagan, Campaign Finance, Campaign 2008, Political Action Committees, Jimmy Carter, Expectations, Obama Expectations, Election 2008, Republican Congressmen, Voting, Home News
Brian Ross

Barack Obama has transformed American politics, and campaign finance. Now the question is, if he wins tonight, can he change government and live up to the expectations of millions of people?

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Single Party Government Is a Good Idea -- This Time

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Split Ballot, Bill Clinton, Harry Reid, Congress, John McCain, Republicans Control Washington, Election Day, Democrats Control Washington, Barack Obama, Washington, Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court, Cross-Vote, President, Single Party Government, 60 Senate Seats, Election 2008, Home News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The best government of all is one that can take decisive action on good ideas -- and sometimes, a nation faces a future so dire that it cannot afford to hamstring itself.

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One Party Government Does Not Equal "Extreme"

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Democratic Congress, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Julian E. Zelizer

Desperate to prevent a huge Democratic landslide, Republicans are warning that one-party government under Democrats would surely mean liberal extremism.

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Notoriously Cheap Democratic Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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On the cusp of winning a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority, Democratic Senators are hoarding their personal campaign chests, demonstrating more self i...

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Democrats Plan Legislative Agenda With No Veto Or Filibuster

The Hill | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Presidential Election 2008, Barack Obama, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Election 2008, Democrats, Politics News

A landslide victory next Tuesday would give Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape...

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Sam Stein

Pelosi Mocks McCain: He Was For Me Before He Was Against Me

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democrats White House, Democrats Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Mccain, McCain Bipartisan, Mccain Praise, Pelosi Praise, Mccain Speaker of the House, Politics News

As the threat of Democrats controlling both houses of Congress and the White House creeps its way into nearly every GOP attack, some leaders on the Hi...

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Out on the Campaign Trail with the McMuppets

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, Harry Reid, Rfk, Joe Biden, Jfk, Richared Nixon, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Fdr, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

These days, its hard to tell the difference between Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and Sesame Street. The award winning children's educatio...

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The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Caution Leftist, the Fat Lady May Be a Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Jeffrey Jena | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Barack Obama Wins, Race Not Over, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Maureen Dowd, Anderson Cooper, Flyoverland, Keith Olbermann, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, 236.Com, Politics News
Jeffrey Jena

I hate to seem petty, to stand on ceremony but some of us out here in Flyoverland want to vote before we let the Big O put his hand on the book.

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Protest Stirs Against US-Iraq Secret Pact

Tom Hayden | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Iraq, Congress, Iraq Pact, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Tom Hayden

Fifty clergy and human rights leaders are demanding that Congress oppose the pact being negotiated in secret by the Bush and al-Maliki administrations.

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America is a Liberal Country

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Congressional Elections, Katrina, Cahrlie Cook, James Dobson, Liberal, Conservative, Democrats, Newsweek, Human Rights, United Nations, Nancy Pelosi, House GOP, Republican Party, Center-Right, Voting, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The Republicans are about to lose another 20 to 34 seats in the House and at least seven seats in the Senate. It will take decades -- maybe even generations -- for them to recover from that.

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Not Another Stimulus Package!

Michael Pento | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Fed, Ronald Reagan, Governement Created Jobs, Bernanke, Economic Growth, Federal Reserve Chairman, 150 Billion, Debt Ceiling, Unemployment, National Debt, Nancy Pelosi, There You Go Again, Stimulus Package, Job Creation, Paul Ryan, Business News
Michael Pento

In a very sad sense, there appears to be no true ceiling to the debt ceiling. Congress raised the debt ceiling to $10.6 trillion in July 2008 and is currently proposing an additional $700 billion.

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