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June 30, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after it was announced that Israeli searchers have found bodies believed to be the three Israeli teens abducted more than two weeks ago:

"The discovery of the bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach, and Gilad Shaar is a heart wrenching end to this search. Their murder is a brutal crime, a nihilist act whose only purpose can be to diminish the prospects of peace.


June 30, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after President Obama announced he will nominate former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs:


June 30, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after President Obama announced that Speaker Boehner will refuse to allow a vote on comprehensive immigration reform and that he will use his executive authority to strengthen the border and fix as much of our broken immigration system as possible:


June 30, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court decision:

"The Harris v. Quinn decision is just the latest attempt to erode the rights of hard-working Americans to come together and bargain for the wages and benefits they've earned.


June 27, 2014
Pelosi Update
#TimeIsNow Today marks one full year – 365 days – since the Senate passed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform by an overwhelming majority of 68 to 32. One year since Democrats and Republicans came together on legislation to secure our border, protect our workers, unite our families and create an earned pathway to citizenship. One year of the House Majority’s refusal to act.

June 27, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District approved the final portion of funding for a suicide prevention barrier on the bridge:

"The Golden Gate Bridge is a source of immense pride to San Francisco, but for too many families in our community, it has also been a place of pain. A suicide prevention barrier offers a critical second chance for troubled men and women acting on often impulsive suicidal thoughts.


June 26, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the bipartisan legislation to renew emergency unemployment insurance introduced by Congressmen Dan Kildee and Steven Horsford:

"Today, more than 3.1 million Americans have been cut off from the emergency unemployment insurance they rely on to see their families through the crisis of long-term unemployment.


June 26, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Today, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner urging him to seek bipartisan solutions to the humanitarian crisis at the southern border and calling on him to include Members of the Border Caucus in the process.


June 26, 2014

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee Chris Van Hollen and Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Committee Sander Levin introduced legislation to end corporate expatriations and keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent: