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Pelosi Statement on President Obama’s Framework for Business Tax Reform

“This initiative is paid-for and does not add a dime to the deficit, and it focuses on our core priorities: creating jobs at home, expanding our manufacturing base, and strengthening small businesses – reflecting and echoing the central goals of Democrats’ Make It In America agenda."

February 22, 2012

Pelosi Statement on Rising Gas Prices

“We need to take strong action to protect consumers from this speculation. Unfortunately, Republicans have chosen to protect the interests of Wall Street speculators and oil companies instead of the interests of working Americans by obstructing the agencies with the responsibility of enforcing consumer protection laws. They have also repeatedly opposed our efforts to end billions of dollars in outdated taxpayer subsidies for oil companies enjoying record profits."

February 22, 2012

Pelosi Floor Remarks on Payroll Tax Cut Compromise

"And, it’s a recognition, that the American people are watching. And they have little appetite for us to be fighting over, what they know is the right thing to do, which is to take every action we can to grow our economy, focusing on the middle class, small business entrepreneurial spirit, and the rest. And that, again, we have important work to do to reignite the American dream in an even bigger way."

February 17, 2012

Pelosi, Speier Request Justice Department Examination into Possible Violations of Federal Law in San Francisco Foreclosures

"The report, based on a review of a random sample of mortgage loans that entered into foreclosure between January 2009 and October 2011, found that 99 percent of the San Francisco mortgages reviewed showed irregularities in the foreclosure process, and 84 percent showed potential violations of California non-judicial foreclosure laws. In addition, foreclosures involving mortgages that were part of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS), which are more likely to have been securitized, showed a high rate of conflicting information regarding the actual beneficiary, which raises questions about whether homeowners were denied their due process rights. We find these findings very troubling."

February 17, 2012

Pelosi Floor Remarks on Republican Transportation Bill

“This legislation is so detrimental to our nation that Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood–a former Member of this body on the Republican side of the aisle has said: ‘This is the most partisan transportation bill that I have ever seen… And it is also the most anti-safety bill I have ever seen. It hollows out our number one priority, which is safety, and frankly, it hollows out the guts of the transportation efforts that have been for about the last three years… It’s the worst transportation bill,’ says Secretary LaHood, former Republican Member of Congress, ‘that I have seen in the 35 years of my public service.’"

February 16, 2012

Pelosi Statement on State Department Partnership on Climate Change

“Today’s announcement that the Obama Administration, led by Secretary Clinton, will partner internationally to reduce emissions of short-lived pollutants is good news for the environment and for global health. It is a necessary step that will help raise the profile of this issue and hopefully spur other nations, including other developing nations, to action."

February 16, 2012

Transcript of Pelosi Press Conference Today

"It appears that we may be shortly voting on this legislation, to give a payroll tax cut to 160 million Americans without having it be offset. That was one of the pillars of the legislation that we had hoped to see. We insisted on three things: one, that we had the payroll tax cut, preferably unpaid for. That's in the bill. Secondly is that we have unemployment compensation extended for a number of weeks, respectful of the needs of our workers who are out of work through no fault of their own. That is in the bill. It does not have these strange—you have to have a high school diploma in order to get unemployment benefits. For workers who have been in the workforce a very long time, that would be an unfair barrier. And third, that we would enable seniors to be able to see their doctors under Medicare. That is in the bill, too. And while we do not like the pay for, we would prefer another pay for, and we would prefer a longer period of time, we do recognize that the bill does contain the three features that we said were necessary and does so, at least in terms of the payroll tax cut, and in terms of the unemployment insurance, in a way that I think is acceptable to most of us."

February 16, 2012

Pelosi Statement on GOP Payroll Tax Cut Extension Vote Tomorrow

“We continue to call upon the conferees to resolve the remaining issues – extending unemployment benefits and ensuring seniors can continue to see their doctors under Medicare – by February 17. If the Conference Committee is unable to complete its work on a comprehensive bill by that date, the Republican leadership should cancel the recess and remain in Washington next week. These crucial policies affect millions of middle class families and seniors and must not expire at the end of this month.”

February 14, 2012

Pelosi Statement on Naming of USS Gabrielle Giffords

"Serving with dignity, strength and character, Gabby Giffords embodies the ideals of our military. And in her recovery, she has shown enormous, and inspirational, courage, just as troops do daily."

February 13, 2012

Pelosi Statement on President Obama’s FY2013 Budget

“The President is reinforcing the building blocks of American prosperity: ensuring our students and our workers have the skills and education to succeed in the future; investing in innovation and strengthening small businesses; supporting manufacturers and creating the clean energy jobs of tomorrow; and rebuilding our roads, bridges, broadband lines, and rail lines."

February 13, 2012

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Make it in America is a new legislative initiative from House Democrats to revitalize manufacturing in America, create new good-paying jobs, and make our nation more secure. This effort builds on House Democrats' actions since the start of the Bush Recession to create jobs and lay a strong new foundation for our economy.