Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's remarks today undermining the bipartisan talks between Members of the House and Senators to achieve a COVID relief package:
"Leader McConnell's efforts to undermine good-faith, bipartisan negotiations are appalling.
"What does Leader McConnell have against our heroes? Our health care workers, our first responders and other frontline workers have risked their lives to save lives. Now, Leader McConnell wants them to lose their jobs and our constituents to lose the essential services they provide. With vaccine distribution being administered by the states, state and local funding is central to our efforts to crush the virus.
Dear Democratic Colleague,
Seventy-nine years ago today, a brutal attack took place on our soil – at Pearl Harbor – that stole more than 2,400 lives and thrust our country into war against fascism and tyranny. In total, nearly 300,000 Americans would lose their lives in combat in World War II.
Today, our country is under a different but deadly assault – this time, from the coronavirus. Tragically, now, our country is on a path to exceed the number of American deaths recorded during World War II.
As in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, our nation must respond to the challenge of the virus with unity and with resolve. We must come together behind the new President-elect and with initiatives of science to defeat this assault on the lives and livelihoods of the American people.
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the House passed H.R. 3884, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, while taking long overdue steps to address the devastating injustices of the criminalization of marijuana and the vastly disproportionate impact it has had on communities of color:
"Today, with the bipartisan MORE Act, the House has proudly passed one of the most important criminal justice reform bills in recent history. This momentous step helps end the devastating injustices of the criminalization of marijuana that have disproportionately impacted low income communities and communities of color, and reflects the overwhelming will of the American people — 47 states have recently reformed marijuana laws, with California at the helm of this justice effort.