House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday the nuclear deal with Iran has her strong support, and she would work to convince her colleagues to vote for it. Pelosi said she was optimistic about the deal’s chances in Congress, calling the agreement the “best possible option.” “I’m very optimistic about our vote…
(JTA) — Is Bibi a mansplainer? Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, all but said so after Netanyahu’s Congress speech Tuesday: “As one who values the U.S. – Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech,” she said. “Saddened by the insult to the…
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she hopes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress next month does not take place because Republican House Speaker John Boehner had invited him for political reasons. Pelosi told reporters she still intends to attend the March 3 speech. Netanyahu has been fending off…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to the U.S. Congress in March could damage the Obama administration’s attempts to broker a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons development, the senior U.S. House of Representatives Democrat said on Wednesday. “Such a presentation could send the wrong message in terms of giving diplomacy a chance,” said…
Wait a minute: I still don’t understand why the idea of a debt ceiling is constitutional. The last I heard, the Fourteenth Amendment was still part of the Constitution. Here’s Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for…
After Nancy Pelosi asked the House Ethics Committee to look into the Anthony Weiner sex scandal, The Washington Post talked to the former staff director of both the House and Senate ethics committees, Robert Walker. He made the sensible point that there’s nothing to investigate unless somebody shows some evidence that a law or congressional…
Last August, during President Obama’s visit to Martha’s Vineyard, a protest erupted over a T-shirt being sold at the SunStations shop in Oak Bluffs that portrayed Obama as Moe, Vice President Joe Biden as Larry, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Curly. The caption read: “The REAL Stooges.” The storeowner said no malice was intended,…
Last night’s congressional debate and votes on health care reform was riveting TV, from the shouts and hollers in the crowd to impassioned speeches on both sides to the final, triumphant arrival of Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House, who had just achieved what no other speaker in decades of trying had…
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