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"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke Saturday to residents of a San Francisco neighborhood that was hit hard by the home foreclosure crisis, telling them it's a challenge they don't have to face alone."

"Lawmakers cranked up pressure Thursday on the Bush administration to stop filling the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid growing election-year anxiety on Capitol Hill about high gasoline prices."

"House Democratic leaders called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether oil industry manipulation has contributed to a 24 percent rise in gasoline prices in the past year."

"The multigenerational group called for greater outreach to returning soldiers and more rural outpatient clinics. 'We have to do better,' Pelosi said."

"A top Democrat in the U.S. Congress raised the possibility on Friday of creating a federal infrastructure bank to help pay for an array of projects, from roads to pipelines to subways, that also could create jobs and improve the environment."

"Democrats will vote on a free trade agreement with Colombia only after the White House and Congress address urgent domestic economic concerns, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday."

"The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq 'is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it,' a Democratic congressman said Saturday."

"The House voted yesterday to delay consideration of a trade agreement with Colombia, despite fierce opposition from the Bush administration and accusations by Republicans that Democrats were subverting long-standing laws on such pacts."