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Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel issued the following statement today on the announcement by President Bush that he will send the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to Congress tomorrow:

Our nation faces a significant shortage of affordable housing, and I commend the work of the National Low Income Housing Coalition in publicizing the problem and advocating solutions on behalf of low- and moderate-income families. The Coalition's annual Out of Reach Report offers a statistical framework for understanding the challenges working families face with the rising costs of housing, typically a family's single largest expense.

Today in a letter to New York Federal Reserve Bank President Geithner, Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee requested details of a potentially long-term arrangement between the Federal Reserve and BlackRock, an investment advisory firm selected to manage $30 billion in assets backed by federal taxpayers.

Full text of the letter (pdf):

Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and senior Democrats sent a letter to President Bush today urging him to change strategy in Iraq in order to repair the grave damage the war has caused to our nation's security. The letter asks President Bush to seek political reconciliation among Iraqi leaders; restore the readiness of our badly strained military; refocus on fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan; and address other critical regional security challenges.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after she and members of the bipartisan Congressional Delegation that met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in India introduced House Resolution 1077. The Resolution, which calls on the Chinese government to end its crackdown in Tibet and to enter into a substantive dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, will be on the House floor next week.