Press Releases
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the outcome of three amendments regarding LGBT discrimination offered in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after Republicans on the Appropriations Committee blocked an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations bill that would close the loophole that allows suspects on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist to buy guns:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after 178 House Democrats wrote a letter to Speaker Ryan calling on him to disband Republicans' Select Panel to Attack Women's Health:
"Republicans' Select Panel to Attack Women's Health is engaged in a level of misinformation and intimidation which has not been seen in Congress since Joseph McCarthy.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the intelligence authorization legislation passed as a suspension bill today:
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Baltimore – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2016 graduates at Morgan State University – the largest historically black college or university in Maryland. Below are the Leader’s remarks as delivered:
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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.
Leader Pelosi. Good morning, everyone. Sadly, we all awakened this morning to the very sad news of the EgyptAir plane going down. Of course, our prayers and thoughts are with the families, mostly Egyptians, French, and then some other countries, some children. They said even infants. So tragic, so sad.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the introduction of bipartisan legislation to address Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis and unsustainable debt burden:
“Today, three million of our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico are facing a desperate fiscal and public debt emergency that threatens their economy, their communities and their families. Only Congress can provide Puerto Rico with the tools it needs to emerge from this crisis.
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released this statement after House Republicans voted unanimously in favor of the display of the Confederate Battle Flag at the Citadel and other institutions that train military officers with taxpayer funds, and also in favor of a Republican provision that would overturn President Obama’s historic executive order banning anti-LGBT discrimination in federal contracts:
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Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after Republicans on the House Rules Committee refused to make in order a bipartisan amendment that would strike an anti-LGBT provision included in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Department of Labor released its final rule to update and expand federal overtime pay protections to 4.2 million American workers across the country: