Tag: Speaker Pelosi

Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer and Whip Clyburn respond to President Bush’s assertion this morning that the new legislation the House is considering this week to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “would undermine America’s security.” Speaker Pelosi: Q: “Are you saying the… Continue

Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to reports that Chinese police forces have arrested, detained and fired tear gas on hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist monks peacefully protesting near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. There have… Continue

Americans are now paying the price for years of a failed energy policy that has resulted in record energy costs, a dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and the rising threat of global warming. The price of a barrel of oil is now… Continue

Washington, D.C. — The House Democratic leadership sent the following letter today to President Bush. Below is a text of the letter: February 28, 2008 The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: The House yesterday passed the Renewable… Continue

Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on Army Chief of Staff General George Casey's comments to reporters yesterday that the stress of repeated Iraq deployments is affecting the quality of Army recruits, midlevel officer retention, and other factors… Continue

Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi today issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary this week of articles in the Washington Post on the shocking conditions experienced by wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center… Continue

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Foreign Affairs Committee Acting Chairman Howard Berman and other members of Congress sent the following letter to President José Ramos-Horta, the President of East Timor, after the recent attempt on his life. Ramos-Horta was a… Continue

The resignation of Fidel Castro is a reason to hope that freedom is closer than it was when he was the public face of an oppressive regime, but is not a guarantee of a democratic future for the people of Cuba. As… Continue

Words are completely inadequate to describe the loss felt by the Northern Illinois University community, or to comfort the grieving. But for parents who lost children, students who lost friends, and to those injured and traumatized by yesterday's tragic shooting, all Members… Continue

Months before General David Petraeus offers his scheduled Congressional testimony on Iraq, Defense Secretary Defense Robert Gates and the Bush Administration have already delivered their verdict about security conditions in Iraq. According to them, Iraq will not be secure enough five months… Continue