Press Releases
Contact: Ashley Etienne/Caroline Behringer, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. — Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released this statement after U.S. forces conducted a tomahawk missile strike targeting a Syrian government airfield, following a brutal chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the Assad Regime:
Contact: Ashley Etienne/Caroline Behringer, 202-226-7616
Contact: Ashley Etienne/Caroline Behringer, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after President Trump signed S.J. Res. 34, a Republican measure to eliminate Americans' internet privacy:
"Someone with as many hidden secrets as President Trump should have greater respect for the privacy of the American people.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 8-3, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects employees from workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation:
"Freedom from discrimination is a fundamental civil right that belongs to every American. The 7th Circuit decision is a resounding victory for LGBT Americans and the right of every person to dignity and opportunity in the workplace.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes when, more than three months into the year, women's wages finally catch up to what men were paid in the previous year:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Senator Patty Murray, Members of the Democratic Women's Working Group and national organizations to mark Equal Pay Day and reintroduce the Paycheck Fairness Act. Equal Pay Day symbolizes the date when women's wages finally catch up to what men were paid in the previous year. Below is a transcript of the Leader's remarks:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after dozens were killed and hundreds wounded in an apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria:
"The use of chemical weapons on civilians is a war crime that violates every standard of morality and civilized behavior.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives shepherded the Dodd-Frank Act into enactment, issued the following statement today on joining an en banc amicus brief filed with the D.C. Court of Appeals which will rehear a divided three-judge panel decision finding the CFPB's leadership structure unconstitutional and severing the provision that made the Director of the CFPB removable only for cause:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in honor of Cesar Chavez Day, which commemorates the civil and labor rights leader's birthday, March 31, 1927: