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Pelosi stresses the importance of electing women, love of children at POLITICO summit

There are currently 20 women serving in the U.S. Senate and 78 in the House. Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House.

Nancy Pelosi floats new strategy to pressure GOP on immigration

With the fall window for enactment of a big immigration overhaul closing rapidly, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has come up with a new strategy to force House Republicans to bring legislation to the floor. An aide familiar with the strategy said the Pelosi plan is to introduce a bipartisan bill nearly identical to the  

Nancy Pelosi opens front on women’s economic issues

Insisting that the conference table set with flowers was incomplete without bowls of San Francisco’s Ghirardelli chocolates, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi laid out her new “When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families” Thursday to a room of female reporters, promising that she would rather have Republicans “join us in  

Nancy Pelosi on Supreme Court rulings

San Francisco married couple Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, who faced deportation to Australia, gave a special thank you to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco for intervening, and said today’s court rulings end 21 years of worry and fear. They also thanked Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Immigration Equality. “It’s a beautiful  

House defense of DOMA gave court grounds to strike it down

When House Speaker John Boehner, supported by former Sacto Rep. Dan Lungren, decided to defend DOMA when President Obama and AG Holder refused, little did they know that they would provide the justification for the Supreme Court to strike down the law on sweeping equal protection and due process grounds, setting the stage for marriage  

With President Obama barely sworn in, EMILY’s List plans a female president for 2016

Before President Barack Obama was officially sworn in for his second term as President of the United States of America, a group of pro-choice women who had worked for his re-election gathered for the EMILY’s List 2013 Inaugural Brunch. The activists enjoyed their 2012 victories: having re-elected a Democratic president, having elected a Senate with […]

Nancy Pelosi defends doctored photos

San Francisco Democrat and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s proudest accomplishment in the November election was a new caucus where women, gays, Asians, Latinos and African Americans outnumber white males. It is the first time in history that white men have been outnumbered in any Congressional caucus. Pelosi often heralds her party’s diversity efforts by […]

GOP continues DOMA defense among first acts of new Congress

The new 113th Congress begins today with the election of Republican John Boehner of Ohio as Speaker and Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, as minority leader. (Boehner is in no apparent danger of being ousted, despite Eric Cantor’s lusting after the job, Boehner’s humiliation on the fiscal cliff negotiation, not to mention the disastrous refusal and […]

Nancy Pelosi rips Reps for refusing Sandy aid

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, after supplying the majority of votes (172 to 85 from Republicans) for the fiscal cliff package late on New Year’s Day, took to the floor of the House Wednesday to chastise Republican leaders for refusing to bring up the Senate’s $60 billion disaster aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims. Looking […]

Rep. Sam Farr: House hijacked

The House is still waiting for the Senate to come up with a deal on the fiscal cliff, now down to negotiations between Republican leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden. Obama is set to deliver remarks at 1:30 Eastern, 10:30 Pacific. Rep. Sam Farr, D-Monterey, attributed the breakdown in the House to a […]