Press Releases

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and senior House and Senate Democrats were joined by jobless Americans at a press conference to protect unemployment insurance benefits for American workers.

"We all come together with a shared value. And we come together proudly to support a bill that passed unanimously with bipartisan support, unanimously in the United States Senate. I congratulate the Senate for the action that they took to give us the opportunity to be here today."

"World AIDS Day is a time to honor the memories of those we've lost to HIV/AIDS, to remember the progress we've made in our fight against this disease, and to rededicate ourselves to ending this pandemic once and for all. The battle to ensure ‘universal access and human rights' for all living with HIV/AIDS represents one of the great moral challenges of our time."

"Today, President Obama brought together the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate in the spirit of cooperation and seeking common ground. In a productive meeting, he offered a process for resolving the tax issue."

"Today vote in the House to pass legislation to provide funding to settle African American farmers' and Native Americans' lawsuits against the federal government brings a much-delayed end to serious cases of discrimination."

"This report from the Defense Department reaches the same conclusions that a majority of men and women in uniform and a majority of Americans have reached: repealing ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' makes for good public policy."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, Congressman Jim McGovern and Senator Blanche Lincoln held a press conference call this afternoon to urge House passage of child nutrition reauthorization legislation, which the Senate has already passed.

"America's middle-class families will continue to benefit from Congresswoman Slaughter's experience and expertise as Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee,” Pelosi said. “As the Chair of the Rules Committee this Congress, her leadership was instrumental in passing legislation to boost the economy and to provide comprehensive health insurance reform for all Americans."