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Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (; born March 26, 1940) is the 60th and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Read More»From Wikipedia |
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While the national attention was focused on the release of CBO numbers on the proposed health care reform bill (or, more likely, NCAA basketball) gay activists kicked off a campaign of civil disobedience that has already resulted in several arrests. It began when Lt. Dan Choi, and outspoken opponent of the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, hijacked an anti-DADT rally hosted by Kathy Griffin (Griffin, it appears, had no problem with the interruption), leading those in attendance to the White House. There, he handcuffed himself to the gates along with fellow activist Capt. Jim Pietrangelo.
Activists are arrested after protesting outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on March 18. (Photo: Joel Silberman via getEqual) According to gay-rights advocate Paul Yandura, activists have staged a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi's district and Capitol Hill offices. The groups are fighting for her
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experience humiliation in person. It's being taken right now by people on both sides of the fight as the clearest sign yet that Nancy Pelosi has the votes. Reporters blogging for NEWSWEEK's archnemesis , the one whose name I dare not type (rhymes with lime
care bill , as has the Catholic Health Association . And Stupak, who was telling Fox News last week that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not have the votes , is now talking about a hypothetical situation in which she does indeed have the votes
I needed Norm to explain and put into context what Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel are trying to do in the House: construct a "vote" on the Senate's controversial health-care bill without requiring members to actually cast a recorded vote on the nasty thing.
Nancy Pelosi , Harry Reid, and Rahm Emanuel are running the final days of the health-care bill like a three-card monte game on Times Square
Technically no, the House does not have to pass the Senate bill and then vote on the changes by using the reconciliation process. Nancy Pelosi indicated this morning that she'd be prepared to use a technique where, in passing the fixes to the Senate bill, the
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