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July 23, 2007
"By threatening to veto crucial child-health legislation, President Bush is playing politics with kids' lives."
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July 16, 2007
"Democrats are talking more and more about the anemic growth in American wages and the negative effects of trade and a globalized economy on American jobs and communities. They deplore what they call a growing gap between the middle class, which is struggling to adjust to a changing job market, and the affluent elites who have prospered in the new economy."
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June 29, 2007
"Democratic leaders of Congress Friday took the wraps off a new effort to force troop withdrawals from Iraq, hoping to heap more political misery on a weakened President George W. Bush."
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June 27, 2007
PBS's Charlie Rose interviews Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a range of issues, including Iraq, Immigration, and the Economy.
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June 20, 2007
"In an effort to maintain pressure on Republicans over the Iraq War, House Democrats are readying another series of votes on the issue --including a motion to deauthorize the war -- that could come to the floor as early as July."
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June 10, 2007
"She has risen through the ranks, climaxing last November when she led Democrats as they retook the House after 12 years as the minority party. "
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June 10, 2007
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the nation is weary of the war and the way it has been prosecuted by the Bush administration, both reasons voters put Democrats in control of Congress last year."
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June 6, 2007
"There are some signs at least of better times ahead for those who love Congress. And signs that Nancy Pelosi could be an exceptional Speaker."
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June 4, 2007
"Democratic congressional leaders, whose efforts to force a withdrawal from Iraq were stymied last month, plan a summer of repeated Iraq-related votes designed to force Republican lawmakers to abandon the White House before the fall."
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June 2, 2007
"Halfway through her first year as speaker, the highest-ranking woman in U.S. history has shown a propensity to govern from the center. Even her Republican adversaries acknowledge that through a combination of listening, cajoling and dealing, she has artfully held the disparate Democratic caucus together on major issues, particularly in opposing the war in Iraq."