Press Releases
"Thank you, everyone. Thank you Michael [Blecker] for your great leadership and your kind words of welcome. Thank you Paul Cox for your leadership as well, to be here with you and Michael Blecker, of course with Suzanne Gordon, we'll all be looking forward to her speech, and Edgar Escobar thank you for your leadership. I also want to acknowledge my daughter, Christine Pelosi who is here, she is a member of the Democratic National Committee, and she was the leader in insisting they have Veterans desk at the Democratic National Committee.
"Instead of acting to create jobs for hard-working families, Republicans are focused on restricting millions of women's access to family planning and preventive care services.
"Title X-funded clinics play a vital role in our health care system, with over four million women receiving family planning and preventive care at these clinics each year. President Trump's assault on Title X will likely have heartbreaking impacts for thousands of vulnerable families who will lose access to lifesaving preventive care.
"While Jewish families across America celebrate Passover, the chief spokesman of this White House is downplaying the horror of the Holocaust.
"Sean Spicer must be fired, and the President must immediately disavow his spokesman's statements. Either he is speaking for the President, or the President should have known better than to hire him."
Below is a full transcript of the address:
"March's jobs report should serve as a stern warning to President Trump: tweeting is not a strategy to create jobs for hard-working American families. It's almost 80 days into the Trump Administration, and the President and the GOP Congress haven't lifted a finger to create good-paying jobs in our country.
"Instead of creating jobs for the American people, the President and the Republican Congress have spent the entire year trying to raise health costs on seniors and working families. At every opportunity, Republicans have moved to stack the deck for the powerful and against hard working Americans.
"This week's unspeakable chemical weapons attack is only the latest in a long series of horrors perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad on innocent men, women and children. Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions driven from their homes. President Assad's brutality places him outside the circle of civilized human behavior. Meanwhile, Russia props up the Assad regime and enables these brutal war crimes to continue.