Archive: 2018

The Trump Administration is perpetuating an unprecedented culture of corruption, cronyism and abuse of taxpayer money .  Nowhere is that more visible – or more damaging – than in the Trump Toxic Team’s sell-out of our environment to their polluter donors.

Leader Pelosi. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentlelady [Congresswoman Maxine Waters] for I commend her for extraordinary leadership in protecting the American consumer, the American taxpayer, our American financial systems that she has been just a remarkable, wonderful leader.

“President Trump’s demands for a wholly unwarranted investigation of the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation are a grave assault on the independence of law enforcement.

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, House and Senate Democrats and education advocates for a press event to unveil another critical tenet of Democrats’ economic agenda, ‘A Better Deal.’  A Better Deal for Teachers would help increase teacher pay, protect teachers’ freedom to negotiate, and provide significant funding to improve the services at and infrastructure of America’s schools.  Below are the Leader’s remarks:

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement as the 115th Republican Congress broke the all-time record for the most bills considered under closed rules that prevent Members of Congress from offering amendments that address dangerous flaws in GOP legislation or that deliver on key priorities of American families:

Washington, DC – Today House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), joined by Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers and  Lily Eskelsen Garcia, President of the National Education Association, unveiled another critical tenet of their economic agenda, “A Better Deal.” The proposal invests in the future of education by ensuring that teacher pay is boosted, schools retain a strong and diverse workforce, school infrastructure is improved, students are provided with access to academic opportunities such as computer science, music, and civics, and special education is fully funded. Democrats propose paying for this critical investment by repurposing the money used to provide tax cuts to the top one percent. Instead of allowing millionaires, billionaires, and massive corporations keep their tax breaks and special-interest loopholes, Democrats would invest that money in teachers and students.

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in observance of Harvey Milk Day in the state of California, in honor of what would have been the 88th birthday of the slain civil rights leader and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk:

Democrats would invest in teacher pay, modern classrooms, special ed and low-income schools, and pay for it all. We’d also protect collective bargaining.

Leader Pelosi. Good afternoon everyone. Democrats are here to take the fight for our democracy to the very steps of the Capitol. The American people are confronted with one of the most compromised, corrupt administrations in history. Instead of delivering on his promise to drain the swamp, President Trump has become the swamp. Republicans, the White House and the Congress are cravenly beholden to big-money interests, and the American people are paying the price.

This week, the House is expected to consider S. 2155, a Senate-passed bill that would deregulate large financial institutions and dismantle important consumer protections enacted as part of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. 

We are particularly concerned with a provision (Section 104) that would enable 85 percent of the depository institutions in the U.S. – roughly 5,400 banks – to not report mortgage data they already collect, which can help expose the most insidious lending discrimination against people of color and redlining of vulnerable communities.