Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON (RNS) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other Democratic lawmakers joined a group of mostly liberal-leaning religious leaders on Wednesday (Oct. 20) to voice faith-rooted support for federal legislation central to President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. Pelosi, a Catholic who recently met with Pope Francis, invoked…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that Congress will vote on a controversial pro-choice bill that would legalize abortion “without limitations” nationwide and would overturn hundreds of state-level abortion restrictions, including Texas’ fetal heartbeat ban. Pelosi (D-Calif.) made the remarks hours after the Supreme Court, in a 5-4…

Salted away in the massive House budget reconciliation budget is $200 million for a park located in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district, a line item that looked suspiciously like pork to Republicans. Rep. Bruce Westerman, House Natural Resources Committee ranking member, took a swing at the Presidio allocation…

Posted September 2, 2021 at 4:15pm Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill are planning to respond to the Supreme Court’s allowing a law virtually banning abortion in Texas to take effect, but there was no clear path to counter the state law. White House Press Secretary Jen…

Republicans said they were blocked from publicly reading on the House floor the names of the 13 U.S. servicemembers killed in Afghanistan. Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story asserted that Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked Republican members of Congress from reading the names of the servicemembers recently killed in…

Legal experts, the Senate majority leader, and borrowers all agree that the president has the authority to cancel student loan debt. Why doesn’t Nancy Pelosi? August 27, 2021 EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was produced for Student Nation, a program of The Nation Fund for Independent Journalism dedicated to highlighting the best…

Nancy Pelosi is so devastated by the loss of American life in Afghanistan today that she could barely contain her tears while talking about marines and personnel who were killed by POS terrorists in Kabul today. JUST kidding. She was far more concerned with pushing some horse crap about Women’s…

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi overcame a squabble within Democratic ranks this week and got her members to cast a unified vote Tuesday to advance President Joe Biden’s top legislative priorities. In doing so, she set up an aggressive timeline to pass them. To keep their warring factions happy,…

For 10 days, nine opportunistic House Democrats puffed out their chests and tried to derail not only their party’s agenda, but its best chance of passing a transformative budget in decades. They claimed, again and again, to be driven by conviction. New Jersey Representative Josh Gottheimer told The Washington Post…

The Biden administration has spent much of August shouting over a chorus of critics who have lambasted the White House about the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden reiterated his intention to stick to the August 31 deadline for the withdrawal. However, he also said…