Pelosi was willing to shut down the government rather than allow Congress to vote funding for border defense. The U.S. State Department has on its website as part of its definition of anti-Semitism: Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such...
WASHINGTON, DC-- Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won the highest post in Congress ever held by a woman when her fellow House Democrats elected her to be their Number Two leader Wednesday OctoberHARRY HAMBURG
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the recent attack on her husband will affect her decision on whether to retire from Congress if Democrats lose control of the chamber as a result of the midterm elections. “I have to say my decision will be affected about what happened the last week or two...
Pelosi began her own political career by interning for Senator Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) in the 1960s. She later moved to San Francisco, California, where she befriended 5thDistrict Congressman Phillip Burton. In 1976, she was elected as a Democratic National Committee member from California, ...
Raised in a politically active family, she embarked on her political career by volunteering for the Democratic Party and was first elected to Congress in 1987. Pelosi made history when she became the first woman to hold the position of House Speaker, one of the highest-ranking roles in the ...
Pelosi earned her degree from Trinity in 1962, and then served as a congressional intern for a Maryland senator. She thought about law school, but followed the more traditional path for a young woman of her era, that of marriage. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, was a recent Georgetown University...
and senator jack reed, discussing defense funding. photographs by annie leibovitz. when i became speaker, people wanted me to impeach president george w. bush over the war in iraq. and i said, as the top democrat on the intelligence committee, that the intelligence did not support the threat...
Ed Markey, a progressive senator who was an early supporter of such policy proposals as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. But Pelosi’s endorsement of the centrist Kennedy has created some tension among more progressive leaders and Congressional officials, specifically in relation to a ...
Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Senior Judge Andre M. Davis Senior Judge Ira Morton Greenburg Senior...
Senator Joe Manchin has said he is “not going to be a candidate for president” but called for a competitive primary in an interview on Monday. The centrist West Virginia senator, who was viewed by some as a possible challenger to Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination, told CBS News...