Press Releases

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will serve as commencement speaker at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. and will address graduates at the 2010 Convocation at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. next month.

"Dr. Benjamin Hooks helped shape the modern day civil rights movement through his leadership of the NAACP: elevating and energizing the storied organization. With great patriotism, he led the day-to-day efforts to root out discrimination and injustice and worked on behalf of equality and opportunity for all Americans for more than half of a century."

"The McCormack Award for Excellence is one of the highest honors that Members of Congress can bestow upon those who make progress and reasonable compromise possible--the staff of the House of Representatives. Their names are not household words. They proudly serve our nation's families."

"Since the start of the recession, unemployment insurance and COBRA health benefits have provided a lifeline of security for the millions of Americans struggling to find a job, care for their families, and pay the bills. Many are out of work through no fault of their own - and it is up to our nation's leaders to stand up for the interests of every American and extend vital assistance to our hardest hit families until they get back on their feet."

"I applaud the President's decision to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take steps to ensure that hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid respect the rights of patients to receive visitors and designate others to make decisions about medical care in the case of an emergency."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in support of a resolution honoring the coal miners who died in the tragic coal mine explosion last week in West Virginia. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 409 to 0.

"In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Congress and the President acted swiftly to bring relief to our nation's families and businesses, and create good-paying jobs. A critical element of that relief and recovery effort was tax cuts for the middle class and small business owners."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in support of a unanimously-passed resolution expressing condolences to the people of Poland mourning the loss of President Lech Kaczynski and the 95 others who died in the tragic plane crash on Saturday.