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The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises continues its hearing to fully examine the American International Group (AIG) and released the AIG employee contracts including the terms of the “retention” bonuses: 2008 Employee Retention Plan>> Confirmation… Continue

Today, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, held the first in a series of hearings to examine how to improve the ability of the government to prevent private sector activities from putting at risk the… Continue

“It may not have the cachet of the Oval Office, but there is no more commanding view in Washington than the one enjoyed by the speaker of the House. The picture windows in Nancy Pelosi’s office frame the National Mall, where, only three weeks earlier, 2 million Americans gathered to celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration. In the distance, centered in the windows, rises the pinnacle of the Washington Monument.”

“For the moment, Pelosi is cloaking her instincts as an experienced street fighter in the soothing tones of bipartisanship. Though her eyes flash green when she puts a sharp point on an argument, she seems reticent to take shots at the House Republicans who voted en masse against the recovery package. For the first time since she rose to the speakership two years ago, Pelosi can at last brush aside the GOP’s obstructionism and get on with the work of undoing the damage done by eight years of Republican misrule.”

“There is nobody Republicans blame more for their woes than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It is Pelosi who loaded the stimulus bill with pork. It is Pelosi who shuts Republicans out of the legislative process, ramrods her liberal ideology through the House and imposes San Francisco values on the nation.”

“I’m in the arena. I love it,” she said on “Hardball.” “You know, if I were not effective, they would not be coming after me.”

“An eight-member congressional delegation began a weeklong trip to Italy on Saturday by stopping briefly at the home of the 31st Fighter Wing. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and seven other members of Congress — all Democrats — spent about three hours on base. “

“‘My colleagues and I would like you to know how proud we are of you,’ Pelosi told assembled airmen during brief remarks at the end of the ceremony. She said President Barack Obama had phoned her right before the trip began and asked her to also pass along his greetings to the servicemembers the delegation met.”

At a ceremony attended by members of the Thirty-First Fighter Wing, Speaker Pelosi pinned the Bronze Star Medal on Technical Sergeant Phoebus Lazaridis for extraordinary service in Afghanistan. Speaker Pelosi delivered a speech in honor of the achievement by Sergeant Lazaridis and the congratulated the Thirty-First Fighter Wing on their recent awards.

“Congressional leaders agreed yesterday on the details of a nearly $790 billion stimulus package, an unprecedented attempt by the federal government to jolt the economy, create millions of jobs and ease the financial woes facing individuals, businesses and states.”