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"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.”

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) put pledge to paper on Thursday by sending her committee chairmen a letter asking them to 'conduct rigorous oversight of all aspects of federal spending' in order to reduce an escalating budget deficit."

"An optimistic President Obama signed a massive economic stimulus bill in Denver this afternoon, enacting a law he has said is necessary to avoid catastrophe."

"An optimistic President Obama signed a massive economic stimulus bill in Denver this afternoon, enacting a law he has said is necessary to avoid catastrophe."

"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. "