Media
Latest News
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the Trump Administration's final rule weakening car pollution standards, which is estimated to increase carbon emissions by 2.2 billion metric tons and cost Americans a total of $300 billion:
"The Trump Administration's anti-science decision to gut fuel standards will unleash massive amounts of pollution into the air at the worst possible time. The American people need and expect strong action to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic, not corporate giveaways that devastate the air that we breathe.
Dear Colleague,
Thank you for your bipartisan cooperation to make the passage of the CARES Act possible.
Please find a guide to help you assist your constituents to participate in the benefits of the legislation.
I will provide more guidance as it becomes available and welcome your suggestions.
best regards,
A few dozen people gathered one early March evening at the National Museum of American History to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition marking the centennial of women's suffrage.
Collected in the glass cases are the artifacts of a long, arduous road to political empowerment:
A red silk shawl worn by Susan B. Anthony as she plied the hallways of the Capitol arguing for the right to vote.
A palm-sized campaign card from the 1916 campaign of Montana's Jeannette Rankin, who became the first woman elected to Congress.
The brown felt hat that Bella Abzug wore at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, where some 2,000 delegates declared: "We demand as a human right a full voice and role for women in determining the destiny of our world, our national, our families and our individual lives."
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the President's much-delayed and limited step to use the Defense Production Act to address shortages of ventilators but not of other key materials needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic:
"The news that the President will finally begin to use the Defense Production Act to mass produce ventilators is an important but seriously belated step.
"Much more must be done. The President must use the full powers of this law to address the dire, widespread shortage of materials required to fight this pandemic, including diagnostic test supplies, masks and other personal protective equipment.