This is not Nancy Pelosi’s first rodeo, but the rodeo certainly looks different this time around. At the Time 100 Summit in New York yesterday, the House speaker said she is feeling more “liberated” during her second stint in the role, in part because she is now leading the most diverse U.S. House of Representatives in history—including 115 […]
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ascended the red carpet Tuesday evening at the TIME 100 she made sure to pay homage to the woman who has had the greatest influence on her life: her mother. “It’s always about mom,” she told TIME. “About the love, confidence-instilling, the importance of studying, of learning the arts, the subject matters […]
It has been another bad inning for male leadership. Besides the hourly flatulence of Trumpian twitterings and the addition of Brazil’s Bolsonaro to the confederacy of bullyboy power, we have been treated to a second wave of masculine mayhem. The reputations of the Patriots owner Robert Kraft, R. Kelly, the philanthropist Michael Steinhardt and even […]
Ever since she reclaimed the gavel in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been her party’s unquestioned leader. That perch has been bolstered this week as she has asserted herself as Democrats’ seasoned and pragmatic strategist following the conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation. From reassuring and reining in Democrats galled by […]
OPINION — For most of the last campaign cycle, Republican ad-makers treated then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi like a piñata. They used her name and image in thousands of GOP television spots around the country, trying to turn the midterm election into a referendum on her liberalism and “San Francisco values.” That effort failed, of course, because […]
The reviews are in. From gutting billions from Medicare, Medicaid to slashing education and other key initiatives, headlines across the country underscore the #TrumpBudget for what it is — a callous roadmap to a sicker and weaker America. CNBC: Trump pledged to protect Medicare and Medicaid, but his 2020 budget calls for major spending cuts New York Times: Trump Lauded […]
For Angelica and Diana Canchola, meeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the highlight of their day. The 16-year-old twins introduced Pelosi to their peers and teachers at the Young Women’s Leadership Academy in downtown Fort Worth on Monday. Pelosi and her Democratic colleague Congressman Marc Veasey dropped by the all-girls school to talk about education […]
AUSTIN,Texas (FOX 7 Austin) – U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi received a standing ovation in Austin Tuesday morning. Prior to boarding a plane back to D.C., the Speaker along with Congressman Lloyd Doggett talked with Austinites about House Resolution 1, the “For The People Act of 2019.” Doggett calls it an expansion of voter rights. “To […]
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Travis County Democratic Party’s annual dinner Monday night that “Texas is ground zero for us in the next election.” The results of a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune survey released Tuesday suggest she might be right. “When it turns, and it will soon, it will make all the […]
WASHINGTON (SBG) – Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey hosts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Young Women’s Leadership Academy, for discussion with YWLA Principal Tamara Albury on ‘the school’s success in inspiring and nurturing young diverse female leaders within the community.