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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) is flipping Republicans' "no budget, no pay" campaign back on the GOP.
Republican leaders had railed against Democrats for failing to move a budget resolution when Democrats controlled the Senate.
Now, however, it's House Republicans who are struggling to pass a budget plan in the face of entrenched opposition from conservatives who feel it doesn't cut federal spending enough.
The dynamics have not been lost on Pelosi, who is jabbing the GOP with suggestions of hypocrisy.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi criticized a resolution brought forward by House Republicans on Thursday, St. Patrick's Day, that will authorize the Speaker of the House to file what she described as an "anti-immigrant" amicus brief in the Supreme Court.
Rep. Pelosi (D-California) said House Republicans refrained from telling members of the "House or American people what they are planning to say" in the amicus brief.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has elevated two sophomores on the influential Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
The California Democrat has promoted Rep. Eric Swalwell, also of California, to vice chair of the panel and added Michigan Rep. Dan Kildee to the leadership committee.
Members of the Democratic Steering Committee are often considered de facto members of senior leadership within the House ranks. The panel helps pick who serves on House committees.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi credited a "desperate thirst" among Republicans to lift a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. crude oil for big Democratic victories — including quashing efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and winning a five-year extension of tax credits for renewable energy — in a $1.1 trillion spending bill Congress cleared on Friday.
Describing her first negotiations with new House Speaker Paul Ryan, Pelosi said Republicans wanted the ban lifted so badly that "they gave away the store."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is adding another wrinkle to this year's budget battle, pressing for the end of a decades-old policy banning most federal research on gun violence.
"We must insist that we cannot have a bill leave the station that still has that ban in it," Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday at a press briefing to mark the third anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., shootings.