Tag Archives: Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi Hits Back At Archbishop Over Communion Ban

The Washington Post reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday questioned whether a San Francisco archbishop who said he would deny her Communion over abortion rights was using a double standard by allowing politicians who support the death penalty to receive the sacrament. “I wonder about the death penalty, which I’m opposed to. So is the church, but they …

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Archbishop Defies Pope, Bans Pelosi From Communion

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The San Francisco archbishop issued a notice Friday that he would no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion, an escalation of his feud with the Catholic Democrat over abortion politics. In a public notification to Pelosi, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote that he had warned Pelosi in April that she must either repudiate …

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Pelosi Pledges US Support For Ukraine Until “Victory”

The New York Times reports: After a secret visit to Kyiv and a three-hour meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday pledged broad economic, military and humanitarian support for Ukraine’s government, saying the United States would stand with its ally until Russia was defeated. Drawing parallels with the American Revolution, the comments by Ms. Pelosi — who …

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Pelosi Holds Surprise Meeting With Zelensky In Kyiv

CNN reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an unannounced trip to the Ukrainian capital on Saturday, becoming the most senior United States official to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky since the war broke out more than two months ago. Pelosi’s office confirmed the trip in a statement on Sunday, saying that the speaker had led an official congressional delegation to …

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Trio Who Stole Pelosi’s Nameplate Get Prison Time

Law & Crime reports: Emily Hernandez, 22, became one of the most well-known faces of the Capitol attack after pictures and videos of her went viral, including one in which she is seen standing just a few feet from Robert Keith Packer—memorably wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt—and grinning widely while appearing to hold the purloined piece of Pelosi’s nameplate. Also …

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Nancy Pelosi Tests Positive For COVID, No Symptoms

NPR reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement the California Democrat released Thursday. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic,” her spokesman Drew Hammill said on Twitter. Pelosi, 82, is vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Her diagnosis makes her the highest-profile U.S. …

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House Passes $1.5T Spending Bill In Late Night Vote

The New York Times reports: The House on Wednesday passed a sprawling $1.5 trillion federal spending bill that includes a huge infusion of aid for war-torn Ukraine and money to keep the government funded through September, after jettisoning a package to fund President Biden’s new Covid-19 response effort. Bipartisan approval of the first major government spending legislation of Mr. Biden’s …

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Cultist Testifies On Plan To Drag Pelosi Out Of Capitol

Politico reports: A former Texas militia member who drove to Washington to join the pro-Trump protests on Jan. 6, 2021 testified Friday that he and his traveling companion – the first person to face trial over the storming of the Capitol – talked about violently pulling Speaker Nancy Pelosi from the building. “We said she needs to be dragged out …

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Pelosi: Boebert And MTG “Should Just Shut Up” [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a terse reaction on Thursday to GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) heckling President Biden during his State of the Union address on Tuesday: “I think they should just shut up.” Pelosi didn’t say if she thinks there ought to be any formal sanction by the House to …

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Pelosi Dodges On Running For Speaker Again [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday would not say if she plans to run for speaker again if the Democratic Party holds control of the House after the November midterm elections. Asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” if she will mount another bid for Speaker, Pelosi said “that’s not a question.” Pelosi instead emphasized …

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Pelosi Reverses, Backs Banning Stock Trades By Reps

The Hill reports: Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) has directed House Democrats to draft a bill to ban members of Congress and their senior staffers from trading individual stocks, giving the movement newfound momentum. Democratic leaders aim to vote on a stock trading bill by the end of the year, potentially before November’s midterm elections, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday. Rep. Zoe Lofgren …

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Pelosi Announces Plan To Run For Reelection [VIDEO]

CNN reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that she plans to run for reelection, aiming to extend her more than 30-year run in Congress. “I am running for reelection to Congress and respectfully seek your support,” Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said in a video message posted on her political Twitter account. “I would be greatly honored by …

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Pelosi Invites Biden To Deliver His First SOTU Address

Politico reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday invited President Joe Biden to deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on March 1. In her brief letter, Pelosi (D-Calif.) thanked Biden for his “bold vision and patriotic leadership” and highlighted several achievements over his first year as president. “Thank you for your bold vision …

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WaPo: Democrats Are Readying For Post-Pelosi Era

The Washington Post reports: House Democrats are bracing for a turnover in leadership next year that would amount to a seismic event for the party — one that could empower a new, diverse generation of members while also exacerbating tensions over the direction of the caucus and the policies it should pursue. After almost 19 years as House Democratic leader, …

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Pelosi: “Solemn Events” Will Mark Anniversary Of Riot

The Washington Post reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated there will be a “full program of events” to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop the confirmation of President Biden’s electoral college win, a siege that resulted in five deaths and left some 140 …

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Pelosi Rejects Banning Congress From Trading Stocks

The Insider reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected the idea of banning members of Congress and their spouses from holding and trading individual stocks while in office. “This is a free market, and people — we are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that,” Pelosi said when asked by Insider at her weekly …

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Omar “Confident” Pelosi Will Punish Boebert [VIDEO]

Axios reports: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday said that she is confident that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will take “decisive action” this week against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for her incendiary comments. Why it matters: House Democrats have increasingly taken it upon themselves to dole out discipline to Republican members for inflammatory and offensive rhetoric this year, per Axios’ …

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Nancy Pelosi Blasts “Anti-Science, Anti-Vaccination” Republicans For Threatening Shutdown Over Mandates

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ripped into the Republican lawmakers threatening a government shutdown over President Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, accusing them of promoting a dual crisis of the economy and public health. “It is yet again, a double sense of irresponsibility: first of all they’d shut down government, and then they’d shut down science,” Pelosi …

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Arizona Man Guilty Of Death Threats Against Pelosi

Phoenix’s ABC News affiliate reports: A jury has convicted an Arizona man for threatening to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Steven Arthus Martis, 77, of Bullhead City was found guilty on Thursday of communicating an interstate threat to kill the Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Arizona, Martis left two voicemails …

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House Passes Build Back Better Act In 220-213 Vote

The Washington Post reports: More than a year after President Biden clinched the White House on a pledge to “build back better,” House Democrats delivered on that promise, voting to approve more than $2 trillion in spending initiatives that would overhaul federal health care, education, climate, immigration and tax laws. The measure adopted Friday amounts to a dramatic re-envisioning of …

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