With a winning message, strong fundraising and a powerful ground game, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she plans to scare off credible challengers, secure a victorious 2020 election cycle and maintain the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives by November, a year before voters cast their ballots. By November, sitting and potential members of […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visited Indianapolis Friday to speak at an event hosted by Congressman André Carson (D-Indianapolis). The event at Central Library was billed as a place to talk about women’s equality, the economy, minimum wage and health care. One audience member asked Pelosi about the working poor who accumulate medical debt because […]
INDIANAPOLIS — In her speech Friday night at the Young Democrats of America convention, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the past ideals and current policies of the Democratic Party. She praised the party’s history on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. “We are not a monolith, and we don’t want to be,” she said.
Young people packed the Grand Hall of the Crowne Plaza on Friday night in Indianapolis, but they weren’t waiting for Lizzo or Taylor Swift. They were waiting for the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to speak at the Young Democrats of America National Convention. Pelosi discussed the future of the Democratic Party, […]
The crowd of 800 roared when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the stage Friday at the Young Democrats of America’s national convention in Indianapolis. Pelosi spoke for about 20 minutes, drawing standing ovations multiple times, including for the House’s likely futile passage of a $15 minimum wage bill, defending abortion rights, for saying Democrats would […]
The 2020 presidential election is more than 16 months away, but Connecticut Democrats were fired up Friday night in their crusade to defeat embattled Republican President Donald J. Trump. More than 1,000 enthusiastic Democrats gathered at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford at the year’s biggest fundraising dinner to hear U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, joined by Rep. Jackie Speier of San Mateo, and Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, and health care advocates, visited San Francisco Saturday to highlight efforts Democrats are making to preserve coverage of pre-existing conditions and lower medical and drug costs. They gave the presentation at HealthRight 360 […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a summit today and it focused on empowering women from all walks of life. The event was both a seminar in how to succeed in life as well as a political call to action. An estimated 1,700 attended the summit to network and learn ways […]
After three decades in the rough-and-tumble world of politics, it would have been easy for Nancy Pelosi to become a cynic. After six presidents, three wars, two recessions, and the rise of the Tea Party, the far right, and Trumpism, Pelosi could have soured on the power of politics to effect change for the better. […]
San Francisco – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today delivered the following remarks at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention. Speaker Pelosi. Good morning, everyone! Good morning, California Democrats! I’m happy to join three former mayors of San Francisco, present Mayor Breed, former Mayor Brown, former Mayor Newsom – now Governor of California Gavin Newsom, in welcoming […]