Press Releases
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released this statement on the passing of former Senator John Herschel Glenn, Jr. of Ohio, the first American to orbit the earth and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, who died today at age 95:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after more than 60 Members of Congress signed a letter urging the Obama Administration to take all measures, including considering the use of pardon authority, to protect America's DREAMers:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today marking the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Democratic Members on Republicans’ Select Panel to Attack Women’s Health released a report on the findings and the egregious conduct of the Panel:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the White House announced President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor. Before President Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park earlier this year, Pelosi was the highest-ranking American official to have visited Hiroshima.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the Department of Labor announced that the economy added a total of 178,000 jobs in November, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.6 percent, the lowest unemployment rate August 2007. With 156,000 private sector jobs being added in November, the economy has added a total of 15.6 million private sector jobs since early 2010.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi held her weekly press conference today. Below is a transcript of the press conference.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released this statement after Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra accepted the nomination from California Governor Edmund ‘Jerry’ Brown to serve as the next California Attorney General:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on House passage of the 21st Century Cures Act:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after House Republicans passed a resolution, by a vote of 234 to 181, to allot an additional $800,000 for the work of the Republicans’ Select Panel to Attack Women’s Health through December 31, 2016, bringing the total for the panel to $1.5 million, repaying the Energy and Commerce Committee for the money the panel has already spent: