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Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Ranking Member on the House Ways and Means Committee Congressman Richard Neal and Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee Senator Ron Wyden to unveil a plan that would cut off the corporate rate reduction if companies fail to invest these tax savings directly into jobs and wages.  Below are the Leader’s remarks:

Good afternoon, everyone!  Thank you for being here.  I’m honored to be here with my colleague, Representative Eric Swalwell, who is the head of our Future Forum, which goes around the country listening to the concerns of millennials.  He heads up a 30-somethings group – some start in the late 20’s and 30’s – he’s bringing us all here together today.

Under the Ryan-McConnell tax bill, not only are Republicans raising taxes on the middle class in order to hand massive tax cuts to the rich, they are destroying a key tax deduction for working families dealing with medical bills: the medical expense deduction, which helps families with children with disabilities, long-term care needs, a need for expensive fertility treatments that have very high medical costs.  

This morning, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union to discuss Republicans’ Ryan-McConnell Tax Plan for Billionaires which will raise taxes on millions of middle class Americans in order to give tax cuts for America’s… Continue

Good morning, everyone.  We have some very special guests with us here today so I will be brief in my remarks so we can hear from them.  Yesterday, as you know, the Republicans unveiled a terrible assault on opportunity for the middle class in America.  The Republicans want you to believe they are cutting taxes on the middle class, but the Republicans are plundering the middle class and middle class families to give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations – some shipping jobs overseas.

Good morning, everyone.  It’s a morning in which we are waiting in anticipation to see what further harm the Republicans will do with their deficit increasing, job killing, tax-cutting for the rich bill that they are going to present today. 

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Congressman Richard Neal and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Senator Ron Wyden at a press conference on the negative impacts of the Republican tax bill.  Below are the Leader’s remarks:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said the state’s Republican members are lining up “like lemmings” to support a tax bill Democrats say will harm their constituents.

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18), members of the LGBT Equality Caucus, other Congressional Members and supporting organizations at an announcement of an amicus brief in support of civil rights protections for historically marginalized groups. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission focuses on whether a business can legally discriminate against customers based on sexual orientation, race, religion and ability, among others, by citing First Amendment protections for “sincerely” held religious beliefs. Below are the Leader’s remarks:

300: Days since the start of this Republican Congress as of October 29, 2017

153: Days the GOP House has been in session, 41 of which were pro-forma days in which the House gaveled in & out in a matter of minutes & no legislative business was completed