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June 30, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the Floor of the House of Representatives in support of H.Res. 503, which empowers Congress to find the truth of the January 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol and ensure that such an assault on democracy does not happen again. Below are the Speaker's remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
June 29, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the Floor of the House of Representatives in support of H.R. 3005, which would remove monuments of Confederate supporters and white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol, as well as replace a bust of racist former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger Taney with a bust of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice. Below are the Speaker's remarks:
Speaker Pelosi.
June 29, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats held a bill enrollment photo opportunity today for Congressional Review Act (CRA) Disapproval Resolutions S.J.Res. 13 to strengthen the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's ability to protect working people against discrimination, S.J.Res. 14 to restore Obama-era protections against dangerous methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, and S.J.Res. 15 to eliminate the Trump Administration's predatory ‘True Lender' rule.
June 28, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement after she introduced H.Res.
June 28, 2021
Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection
This Wednesday, I announced that the House of Representatives will be establishing a Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection. January 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation's history, when our temple of democracy was attacked by insurrectionists.
June 28, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a photo opportunity today with His Excellency Reuven Rivlin, President of the State of Israel, before a bipartisan leadership meeting. Below are the Speaker's remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Mr. President, it is an official honor as Speaker of the House to welcome you to the United States Capitol. It is a personal pleasure for me to do so, as one who has admired your leadership for such a time.
June 27, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the United States conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region:
"The defensive airstrikes conducted today by the Department of Defense on operational and weapons storage facilities in the Iraq-Syria border region appear to be a targeted and proportional response to a serious and specific threat.
June 26, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement to mark the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges:
"Today, all Americans join the LGBTQ community to celebrate six years since marriage equality was unequivocally declared the law of the land. The historic decision in Obergefell v.
Issues:LGBTQ+
June 25, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the tragic building collapse in Surfside, Florida, which has killed at least four people with 159 missing:
"America's heart is broken by the unfathomable and ongoing tragedy in Surfside, Florida.
June 25, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement marking eight years since the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013, which gutted the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
"Today marks eight years since the Supreme Court handed down Shelby v. Holder: one of the most disastrous and dangerous decisions for our American Democracy in recent memory.