111th Congress
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on a report issued by the Department of Defense about the impact of repealing the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy:
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after the House passed bipartisan legislation blocking the 23 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors, scheduled for December 1, for one month, while a longer-term fix is negotiated. The Senate passed the bill on November 18, and it now goes to President Obama for his signature into law:
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on regulations under the Affordable Care Act now being implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services. The “Medical Loss Ratio” provisions issued today require health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers’ premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality:
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after Republicans in the House blocked extending unemployment insurance, which would have extended unemployment insurance for millions of Americans and injected demand into the economy:
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on General Motors’ initial public offering, marking a major milestone in the recovery of the American auto industry:
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the new rules issued by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requiring equal visitation rights for all hospital patients, empowering them to designate their own visitors, including a same-sex domestic partner:
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on the Senate Republicans blocking a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which passed the House nearly two years ago:
“The Paycheck Fairness Act reaffirms an American value: equal pay for equal work. This legislation has the support of the majority of the House, the Senate, and the American people; yet today, partisan politics blocked progress.
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616