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San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after President Trump nominated Brian Miller, a senior associate counsel in the Office of the White House and former GSA Inspector General, to oversee the Treasury Department's implementation of the $2 trillion CARES Act:
"Congressional Democrats transformed the CARES Act from corporations-first to workers-first, ensuring that taxpayer dollars given to industry go to workers' paychecks and benefits, not be used for CEO bonuses, stock buybacks or dividends.
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Washington, D.C. — Speaker Pelosi released this statement on next steps in the coronavirus response:
"The numbers are devastating: 6.6 million initial unemployment claims, 700,000 jobs lost in the March jobs report, more than 245,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 6,000 dead.
"The acceleration of the coronavirus demands that we double down on the downpayment we made in CARES by passing a CARES 2 package. We must extend and expand this bipartisan legislation to meet the needs of the American people.
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Department of Labor released its March jobs report:
"The March jobs report comes as our nation faces the unprecedented health and economic crisis posed by the coronavirus pandemic. This deadly virus has already had a deep impact on every aspect of American life, putting millions of Americans out of work and inflicting stress and uncertainty on countless workers and families.
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Washington, D.C – Speaker Nancy Pelosi held her weekly press conference today via conference call. Below are the Speaker's remarks:
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the Trump Administration's final rule weakening car pollution standards, which is estimated to increase carbon emissions by 2.2 billion metric tons and cost Americans a total of $300 billion:
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement marking Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year:
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the appointment of Acting Defense Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee created in the CARES Act, which will work alongside a special Inspector General focused on the Treasury Department's distressed industry fund and a new bicameral congressional oversight panel:
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the President's much-delayed and limited step to use the Defense Production Act to address shortages of ventilators but not of other key materials needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic:
"The news that the President will finally begin to use the Defense Production Act to mass produce ventilators is an important but seriously belated step.