Archive: 2010

Today, Speaker Pelosi announced several reforms to congressional delegation travel (CODEL) undertaken by Members of the House–including the elimination of so-called “enhanced” per diems and a new requirement that Members and staff will be required to book in coach/economy class unless the… Continue

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that U.S. Air Force Retired Lt. Col. Stacee Bako will assume the position of Director of the Office of Interparliamentary Affairs, which oversees congressional delegation travel for the House. Pelosi also announced several reforms to congressional delegation travel undertaken by Members of the House.

Today, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a new report showing anti-fraud enforcement and prevention efforts by the Obama Administration resulted in more than $2.5 billion returned to the Medicare Trust Fund and over $441… Continue

Today, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held their first hearing on the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Coast Oil Spill as part of their ongoing inquiry examining what caused the explosion on the drilling rig, the adequacy of the companies’… Continue

I commend Senators Kerry and Lieberman for their hard work in putting together comprehensive legislation along with Senator Graham. This legislation embraces the key goal of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, passed by the House last June, of reducing our… Continue

“Our meetings with all of you are very important to us. We look forward to them, and we are honored that so many of you join us on a regular basis. You are essential partners in our efforts to care for those who have worn our nation’s uniform.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican Leader John Boehner held a brief press availability this evening with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan prior to their meeting in the Capitol.

“his legislation embraces the key goal of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, passed by the House last June, of reducing our nation’s climate-changing pollution emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.”

“And today, in passing this innovation bill–this COMPETES Act–we are reaffirming our leadership ‘in science and in industry.’ And we are keeping America first.”

Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi, Susan Davis (D-CA), Chair of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam), Member of the Armed Services Committee, Niki Tsongas (D-MA), Member of the Armed Services Committee, and Donna Edwards (D-MD), Member of the Science and… Continue