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In case House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) was in any doubt, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has made it clear this week that she drives a hard bargain.
The two House leaders are facing their first serious battle of wills over Congress's pile of year-end legislation. Republicans will grade Mr. Ryan, elected speaker in late October, on how many conservative policy measures he manages to attach to the spending bill needed to prevent a shutdown when the government's funding runs out Friday night.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is urging House Republicans to create a special committee to investigate gun violence in the U.S., one day after a shooter went on a rampage at a community college in Oregon.
In a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the California Democrat said Congress needs a select panel to study why mass shooting deaths occur and what legislation lawmakers could pass to stop the violence.
The shooting at Umpqua Community College was the 45th school shooting this year.
For weeks, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been penning handwritten, personalized thank you notes to the nearly 150 House Democrats who publicly backed President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
Passing the federal Equality Act and ending murders of transgender women of color were two issues that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi heard about during a meeting with local LGBT leaders.
The September 3 meeting, held at the Harvey Milk Center for the Arts, gave the San Francisco Democrat an opportunity to hear from out Bay Area and statewide leaders on a variety of topics.