Press Releases
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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. – 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 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. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to conduct deportations of migrants from Central America escaping extreme violence in their home countries:
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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:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released this statement on the commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement after Republicans moved to begin bringing appropriations bills to the floor without having enacted a budget, the final admission that Speaker Ryan has given up attempting to pass the Ryan Road-to-Ruin Budget proposal:
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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Supreme Court told the Administration and the plaintiffs in the Zubik v. Burwell challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage requirement to go back to the lower courts and try to find a solution that satisfies both parties: