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Sharp Fiscal Split Looms Over Obama and GOP

(Nov. 30) -- Today's delayed, diminished and sure to be disputed White House meeting between President Barack Obama and ascendant congressional Republicans is set to include discussion of a broad array of national security and domestic policy issues. But in a week when painful deficit-cutting plans are coming to the fore...

Health Care Reform Is Moment For Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON (March 21) -- Nancy Pelosi may speak softly, but Sunday morning she carried a big gavel – the same one used to pass Medicare in 1965 – into the Capitol where she shepherded the biggest expansion of health care in 45 years. In making the trek to the Capitol, Pelosi walked through a throng of Tea...

Rep. Pelosi's Floor Speech Before the House Health Care Vote

(March 21) Below is the transcript of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remarks before the House voted on health care reform. Thank you, my colleagues. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank all of you for bringing us to this moment. It is with great humility and with great pride that we tonight...

What Hurdles Remain for Health Care Reform?

(March 17) -- The massive overhaul of the health insurance industry could ultimately provide coverage for as many as 30 million uninsured Americans at a 10-year price tag of just under $1 trillion. But a range of complaints from rank-and-file Democrats, from how the package is paid for to the treatment of illegal...

Nancy Pelosi Makes Election Prediction

WASHINGTON (Feb. 28) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday predicted the Democrats will keep their majority in the House despite some of the rough rides it has been having in the polls and Republican warnings that Democrats will suffer political damage if health care reform legislation is "jammed down the throats of a...