Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the United States conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region:

"The defensive airstrikes conducted today by the Department of Defense on operational and weapons storage facilities in the Iraq-Syria border region appear to be a targeted and proportional response to a serious and specific threat.

"Protecting the military heroes who defend our freedoms is a sacred priority. The Iran-backed militias utilizing these facilities have been engaged in attacks threatening U.S. servicemembers, as well as our allies.

"Congress looks forward to receiving and reviewing the formal notification of this operation under the War Powers Act and to receiving additional briefings from the Administration."

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement marking eight years since the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013, which gutted the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:

"Today marks eight years since the Supreme Court handed down Shelby v. Holder: one of the most disastrous and dangerous decisions for our American Democracy in recent memory. That day, a partisan Court gutted the protections of the Voting Rights Act and unleashed a brazen campaign of voter suppression that has only accelerated in recent years: in the first five months of this year alone, nearly 400 voter restriction bills have been introduced across 48 states. This voter suppression campaign, deepened by vicious gerrymandering and a torrent of secret special interest money, cannot go unanswered.