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December 5, 2007
Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi was joined by Members of the House and Senate and young children at an enrollment ceremony in the Capitol this morning to sign Head Start legislation and send it to President Bush for his signature into law.
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December 5, 2007
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter to Allan B. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council outlining the bipartisan compromise that led to the Energy Independence and Security Act.
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December 5, 2007
The Oversight Committee is currently holding a hearing, "Executive Pay and Compensation Consultants," to examine the role played by compensation consultants in determining the pay packages of senior executives at the largest publicly traded corporations.
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December 4, 2007
Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Elijah E.
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December 4, 2007
In light of the new National Intelligence Estimate, the President should re-evaluate his Iran policy, particularly his focus on the threat of military force at the expense of sustained diplomatic engagement.
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December 3, 2007
While we should harbor no illusions about the intentions of some Iranian leaders, the new Iran NIE suggests there is time for a new policy toward Iran that deters it from restarting its nuclear program while also improving relations overall.
The NIE also illustrates the effectiveness of international monitoring and targeted sanctions to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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December 3, 2007
Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the following statement on the unclassified key judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence today:
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December 3, 2007
Today, Chairman Henry Waxman wrote to Attorney General Mukasey regarding White House objections that are preventing Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from providing the Oversight Committee with records from interviews of White House officials taken during his investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's identity.