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Press Release
May 29, 2009
"The delegation met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang to discuss how the United States and Hong Kong can work together to address the global financial crisis and climate change. The delegation and the Chief Executive also discussed the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China along with the prospects for universal suffrage in Hong Kong in the near future."
Press Release
May 29, 2009
"The delegation met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang to discuss how the United States and Hong Kong can work together to address the global financial crisis and climate change. The delegation and the Chief Executive also discussed the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China along with the prospects for universal suffrage in Hong Kong in the near future."
Press Release
May 29, 2009
"In addition to Pelosi, the other members of the congressional delegation are Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA), Chairman, Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming; Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Ranking Member, Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming; Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR); and Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA). Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) traveled with the delegation earlier but has now returned home to California."
Articles
May 28, 2009
"U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Beijing on Thursday to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right."
Articles
May 28, 2009
"Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, met China's two top leaders on Wednesday to discuss cooperation on energy and environmental problems, and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Beijing would join Washington to ''push for positive results'' at the next global warming summit meeting this fall in Copenhagen."
Blog Post
May 27, 2009
Today marks the 100th day since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. President Obama released a report entitled 100 Days, 100 Projects saying, "one hundred days ago, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in half a century, we passed the most sweeping economic recovery act in history -- a plan designed to save jobs, create new ones, and put money in people's pockets.
Press Release
May 27, 2009
"We had productive discussions about how the United States and China can cooperate on improving international security, growing our economies and protecting the environment,' Pelosi said. 'We urged the Chinese leaders to use their influence to help bring North Korea to the table for Six-Party Talks. On clean energy and climate change, both sides agreed to work together to confront the urgent challenge we face. Our delegation also emphasized the bipartisan concern in Congress on China's poor record on human rights in China and Tibet.”
Press Release
May 27, 2009
“With unprecedented speed, Congress and President Obama worked together to enact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is already creating and saving jobs, cutting taxes for working families, and making essential investments in technology and infrastructure to build the foundation of our economic recovery."
Blog Post
May 26, 2009
From our hotel rooms we can look over Shanghai, an enormous, world-class city of modern, architecturally innovative skyscrapers as far as the eye can see. There are cranes everywhere, and the city is getting ready to host the largest World Expo in history next year. Everyone we met, from the Mayor of Shanghai, to company executives, to building materials experts, emphasized with great pride how green building techniques and energy efficiency are integrated into buildings starting in the design phase.
Blog Post
May 26, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8:
Court upholds Prop. 8 but lets marriages standBob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/26/09
California voters legally outlawed same-sex marriage when they approved Proposition 8 in November, but the constitutional amendment did not dissolve the unions of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before the measure took effect, the state Supreme Court ruled today.
The 6-1 decision was issued by the same court that declared a year ago that a state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman violated the right to choose one's spouse and discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation.
Speaker Pelosi on the ruling: