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Pelosi ‘All for’ Offshore Drilling Moratorium As President Barack Obama prepared to announce a six-month ban on new deep-water drilling, Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested she would support a much broader moratorium on offshore drilling.

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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says oil companies that cause major spills like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico should face unlimited liability for economic damages. Federal law caps liability at $75 million for economic damages beyond direct cleanup costs. Pelosi said at a news conference that she supports legislation eliminating the cap as part of a series of bills Congress is working on in response to the spill.

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House Democrats defended the new package, which received a major boost Thursday when the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that it would reduce deficits by about $138 billion over the next 10 years and by about $1.2 trillion in the decade thereafter. Republicans quickly noted that those numbers represent a tiny fraction of the huge deficits projected for that period. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was jubilant, calling the bill "a triumph for the American people in terms of deficit-reduction."

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Our nation has been sustained and strengthened by immigrants from generation to generation and that is why today’s action in Arizona is misguided and irresponsible

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Pelosi says the 17,000 U.S. troop increase ordered by President Obama is aimed at eliminating a resurgent Taliban and ensuring Afghanistan does not again become a launching point for terrorist attacks.

 

But she says progress also will depend on reducing corruption in the Afghan government.

 

"We need a [military] force tailored in size to achieve a specific, clearly defined objective, improved governance," said Nancy Pelosi. "Any strategy must address systemic corruption within the Afghan government and crack down on drug trafficking."

 

The regional challenge, Pelosi adds, involves not only Pakistan, but also India, China, Iran, Russia and other nations interested in seeing stability return to Afghanistan as the United States seeks to improve the joint effort with NATO.

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New York Times

Mr. Obama has been under intense pressure from moderate and conservative House Democrats to show more fiscal restraint, and an administration official said Tuesday that the lawmakers had been urging him to throw his weight behind reviving the law. Mr. Obama said Tuesday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, supported the measure; Ms. Pelosi was at the lectern with him in the East Room.

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Digital News' Antitrust Hurdle

For although Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has endorsed the idea of allowing the newspaper industry at least a temporary exemption from the antitrust and price-fixing statues--which would allow such a concerted and coordinated start to fee-based online news--the Justice Department's antitrust division begs to differ, and sees no reason for such an exemption.

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San Francisco Chronicle

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "As the first Latina to be nominated for the Supreme Court, Judge Sotomayor's nomination and life story are a testament to the American values of equality, opportunity, and justice. Her outstanding intellectual achievements -- as a student, attorney and judge -- make her one of the most qualified nominees in many years. I look forward to her timely confirmation by the United States Senate."

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But Democrats said the budget reflected the themes that Mr. Obama campaigned on and the priorities of most Americans.

“This is a magnificent blueprint for the future,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

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Bloomberg

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has full confidence in the Treasury secretary, said her spokesman, Brendan Daly. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid does as well, his spokesman said.

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The Importance of a Foil

But you know it’s bad for the GOP when even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) takes up the Republican cause twice in less than a week.

“It is important for us to have a strong Republican party,” Pelosi told a press conference on April 23. “And I hope that the next generation will take back the Republican Party for the Grand Old Party that it used to be.”

Then at a news conference on April 29 with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), the Speaker again begged for Republicans to “take back your party,” asserting that a “radical, right-wing element” hijacked the GOP.

“Our country needs a strong, diverse, Republican party,” said Pelosi. 

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"By any measure, the work of President Obama and Congress in our first 100 days has been a great success."  [The Hill]

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I share President Obama’s goal of a viable and competitive domestic automotive industry, which is an essential part of America’s manufacturing base and our national security, and a critical source of green jobs for the future. We need a forward-looking and healthy automobile industry that prizes innovation and competitiveness.

The automotive industry has long been part of our nation’s economic strength, and it can be again. Congress is committed to working with the President to renew the auto industry so it can become a global, competitive, and innovative leader in fuel efficiency and in advanced energy-efficient technologies that reduce our dependence on oil and protect our environment.
 

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Politics and Policy | Reps. Introduce Bill To Expand Medicaid Coverage to Some HIV-Positive People
[Mar 27, 2009]
Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have introduced a bill (H.R. 1616) to allow states to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income HIV-positive people, CQ HealthBeat reports. The bill would permit states to change their Medicaid eligibility policies to increase access to early and cost-effective HIV treatment before the virus progresses to AIDS, Engel said in a statement. According to Engel, this approach would be "more cost effective for the federal government since it's much more expensive to treat patients with AIDS than HIV."

Under current Social Security regulations, HIV-positive people must be disabled by the virus before they can receive Medicaid coverage, according to Engel's statement. The bill would allow participating states to receive higher federal rates for providing treatment to people living with HIV and is similar to other initiatives, such as the Children's Health Insurance Program and a program providing early Medicaid access to low-income women with cancer. "It makes no sense that a person must develop ... AIDS before Medicaid can treat them," Ros-Lehtinen said in the statement. She added, "This legislation would remedy this by giving states the option to extend Medicaid coverage to low-income persons so that they can confront their HIV before it becomes AIDS and thus help them from becoming terminally ill and a burden on their families and the public health system" (Feldman, CQ HealthBeat, 3/26).