House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is engaged in a full-on campaign for the House Speakership and is taking nothing for granted. Her move comes as more Democrats come out against her nascent bid to regain the Speaker’s gavel she lost when Republicans took the majority in the 2010 midterm elections.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi publicly defended House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer after audio surfaced of a call in which he urged a Democrat candidate to drop out of a primary.

Two months before a bitterly contested Democratic primary and seven months ahead of the November general elections, voters in the city of 100,000 are paying “minimal” attention to the candidates vying to represent them and the other voters in the Sixth Congressional District in the House of Representatives when the 116th Congress convenes in Washington, DC, in January.