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Boehner, Pelosi Announce Appointments to Office of Congressional Ethics
January 16, 2013
“With these appointments, the Office of Congressional Ethics will continue to be entrusted with an active role in the ethics enforcement process for the House of Representatives. We thank these board members for their service and express our gratitude to them for their leadership,” Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi said. “We also express our thanks and appreciation to retiring Board Alternate Former Congressman and Federal Judge Abner Mikva for his outstanding service to the House and to the country.”
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Pelosi Statement on President Obama’s Gun Violence Prevention Proposals
January 16, 2013
“President Obama’s proposals reflect a series of clear and concrete steps in the effort to rein in, reduce, and prevent gun violence in our country. The President’s executive actions are critical to our response; they are necessary; but, as the President said, they are not sufficient."
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Pelosi Statement on Passage of Sandy Relief Package
January 15, 2013
“At long last, Members of the House came together in a bipartisan way to uphold our moral obligation to the victims of Hurricane Sandy: to provide the assistance they need to continue the work of recovery."
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In Letter to Boehner, Pelosi and Hoyer Protest Secret & Dramatic Increases in Taxpayer Funded DOMA Defense
January 15, 2013
As Leader Pelosi and Whip Hoyer said in their letter, “As the two Democratic Members of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), we wish to strongly reaffirm our objections to the repeated actions by the Republican leadership to secretly and dramatically increase the contract between the House and outside counsel in arguing to uphold the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in more than a dozen cases.”
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Pelosi Statement on President Obama’s Press Conference
January 14, 2013
“President Obama is correct – Republicans must not threaten the full faith and credit of the United States. America always pays its bills, and Republicans should not use veterans, seniors, small businesses, public safety, or the stability of our housing and stock markets as leverage."
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Pelosi Statement on the Nomination of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary
January 10, 2013
“President Obama has made the right choice in nominating Jack Lew to serve as our nation's next Secretary of the Treasury – selecting a public servant of dignity and commitment to help spur our economic growth, instill confidence in consumers and the markets, and protect and strengthen the middle class."
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Pelosi Statement on the Departure of Secretary Hilda Solis
January 9, 2013
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after Secretary Hilda Solis announced that she would be stepping down from her post at the Department of Labor:

"Secretary Hilda Solis has established an extraordinary record as an unflinching advocate for American workers, a dedicated leader for the equality of women in the workplace, a critical voice for Democrats in Congress, and a bold leader in President Obama's administration.

"Secretary Solis has been a pioneer and a trailblazer: the first woman to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award; the first Latina in the California State Senate; the first Latina Cabinet member in history; the highest-ranking Latina in President Obama's Cabinet.

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Pelosi Statement on Nominations of Former Senator Hagel, Counterterrorism Chief Brennan to Key National Security Posts
January 7, 2013
“For the past four years, at the CIA and the Pentagon, Secretary Leon Panetta has worked to help the President meet his responsibilities to keep Americans safe, and we commend him for his extraordinary leadership and thank him for his decades of service to our country."
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Transcript of Pelosi Press Conference Today
January 4, 2013
"Several weeks ago, I came before you bringing our 49 new Members together, and we saw the beautiful diversity in every possible way, gender, geography, philosophy, in every possible way, ethnicity, of course. And now, they are Members of Congress with constituents, and they will have a representative voting – have a vote on the floor today for the electoral – the vote has been taken. It will be reported, but it was their appointees who made the vote."
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Pelosi, Democratic Caucus Approve Key Committee Recommendations
January 4, 2013

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that the Democratic Caucus had approved recommendations for a series of new appointments of Members of Congress to seats on key House committees in the 113th Congress.

"In committees, on the floor, and in our districts, House Democrats will work every day to strengthen our democracy by creating good-paying jobs here at home, promoting our values of equality and opportunity, and expanding our strong, thriving middle class, as we reduce the deficit," Leader Pelosi said.  "With seats at the table and powerful voices in every hearing, these Members will represent the best interests of our constituents and the highest hopes of the American people."

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