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Pelosi: Can Not Guarantee Omnibus Will Pass

Thursday at her weekly briefing, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she can not guarantee House Democrats will vote for the $1.1 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill. When asked if she was confident the bill would pass, Pelosi said, “No, we

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Nancy Pelosi: ‘The Tea Party Empowers’ Dems

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tells Politico the “Tea Party empowers us.” But what she means is that former Speaker John Boehner was so weak, his failure to craft and submit legislation a majority of Republicans could back often put Pelosi in the position of calling the shots in the House.

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Nancy Pelosi Seeks ‘Bipartisan’ Election For House Speaker

Many Democrats legislators are willing to unite with Republican legisaltors to elect a “consensus choice” for Speaker of the House, Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this weekend. “I think in our caucus there is interest and support, there’s an openness to a bipartisan approach to this [the election of the next Speaker of the House],” Pelosi said at the Texas Tribune Festival, according to Conservative HQ.

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Conservative Media, GOP Establishment Push Paul Ryan For Speaker

The problem is that the Republican leadership betrayed their own base one time too many. What happened in 2014 was quite simple: the GOP asked voters to give them both House and Senate to put the brakes on Obama’s disastrous agenda, and the voters took them up on it. The capitulations and walkbacks began with days of the last races being called. The old song-and-dance about how “we’ll fight next time” and “we need just a little more power to get anything done” was performed one last time, to disastrous effect.

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Pelosi Doubts Planned Parenthood Videos ‘Are Real’

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to acknowledge the controversial series of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors negotiating  prices for fetal tissue are real. Pelosi said, “I don’t stipulate that these videos

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John Boehner’s Huge Unpopularity Forces His Resignation

On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.

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Boehner’s Exit Plan: Pass Obama’s Agenda

On Friday morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner announced that he would be leaving Congress on the day before Halloween. Presumably, he already has a gig booked the next night as a pumpkin.