Tag: Speaker Pelosi

Pelosi: ‘Trump is goading us to impeach him’

‘Every single day he’s just like taunting, taunting, taunting,’ she said at an event

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is trying to bait Democrats into starting impeachment proceedings against him but cautioned that her caucus will only be led to that process by the facts.

“Trump is goading us to impeach him,” the California Democrat said during an event in New York City hosted by the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs.

“That’s what he’s doing,” she said. “Every single day he’s just like taunting, taunting, taunting because he knows that it would be very divisive in the country, but he doesn’t really care. He just wants to solidify his base.”

View the complete May 7 article by Lindsey McPherson on The Roll Call website here.

Pelosi accuses Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters during a press conference Thursday that Attorney General Bill Barr did not tell the truth during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee — and “that’s a crime.

“What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States. That’s a crime. … He lied to Congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law. Not the president of the United States, and not the attorney general.”

View the complete May 2 article by Zachary Basu on the Axios website here.

President looms large over McConnell-Pelosi spending ceiling talks

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is trying to build a functional working relationship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as the two tackle the mammoth task of winning a deal on fiscal spending ceilings for the next year.

McConnell says the deal is his top legislative priority after the April recess, but achieving it won’t be easy.

Democrats are insisting on parity between defense and nondefense spending, arguing any hike for the Pentagon must be equal to that for domestic spending.

View the complete April 17 article by Alexander Bolton on The Hill website here.

Join us for the 8th Annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner

The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is pleased to announce Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the keynote speaker for the Eighth Annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner on Friday, May 24th at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The event will be special this year in that we will also be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Minnesota DFL.

WHAT:  Humphrey-Mondale Dinner

WHEN:  Friday, May 24, 2019, 6:00 PM

WHERE:  Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN

Tickets are now available with various ticket and table options. Please click here or on the invite below to reserve your spot today. The Eighth Annual Humphrey-Mondale dinner will sell out very quickly, so please reserve your tickets today.

‘Target practice’: Critics slam NRA’s headline next to Pelosi, Giffords photo in magazine

Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) escorts former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Ricky Carioti, The Washington Post

Next to a photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Arizona lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords were the words “Target Practice.”

It was the headline of a story in the National Rifle Association’s American Rifleman magazine, where the author, chief NRA lobbyist Chris W. Cox, criticized newly introduced bipartisan universal background-check legislation. But in the eyes of others, the headline and accompanying photo of Pelosi and Giffords, who was shot in the head in Tucson in 2011, said more than the article did.

Some claimed the headline was an intentional attempt to incite violence against the politicians.

View the complete February 25 article by Meagan Flynn on The Washington Post website here.

House Democrats to challenge Trump’s emergency declaration; Republicans divided on action

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Feb. 14 that Democrats will be ready to respond if President Trump declares a national emergency at the border. (Reuters)

House Democrats are gearing up to pass a joint resolution disapproving of President Trump’s emergency declaration to build his U.S.-Mexico border wall, a move that will force Senate Republicans to vote on a contentious issue that divides their party.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday evening in an interview with The Washington Post that the House would take up the resolution in the coming days or weeks. The measure is expected to easily clear the Democratic-led House, and because it would be privileged, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would be forced to put the resolution to a vote that he could lose.

“This is a gross abuse of presidential power,” Nadler said of the news that Trump would declare a national emergency to try to move money around to fulfill one of his central campaign promises. “This is an attempt to overturn the basic constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. Congress has the power of the purse. It cannot be tolerated.”

View the complete February 14 article by Rachael Bade, Seung Min Kim, Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane on The Washington Post website here.

‘Have I not been clear about the wall?’ Pelosi signals Trump still won’t get what he wants

Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call

Three weeks of negotiations not likely to result in a Trump-friendly agreement on border wall funding

ANALYSIS — It took 35 days, but President Donald Trump ultimately caved to Democratic demands that he reopen the government before they’d entertain negotiations on border security. And in 21 more, Trump will have to decide whether to give in again, because he’s not likely to get what he wants.

Trump agreed Friday to back a three-week continuing resolution that will reopen the government through Feb. 15. But he is not giving up on his quest to secure funding for wall along the southern border.

“We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier,” Trump said as he concluded remarks from the Rose Garden announcing the deal to temporarily reopen government. “If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on Feb. 15 again or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency.”

View the complete January 25 article by Lindsey McPherson on The Roll Call website here.

This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Credit: Win McNamee, Getty Images

Trump caves.

Nancy Pelosi has been speaker of the House for just 22 days, and she just humiliated the president of the United States.

Ever since President Donald Trump shut down much of the government last month, Pelosi has delivered a consistent message to Trump — “my offer to you is this: nothing.” On Friday, Trump took that offer, announcing his support for a short-term funding bill that will reopen the government for three weeks without any additional funding for a border wall.

Trump’s cave on Friday is absolute. He will reopen the government and he will not get his wall. Pelosi wins. Trump loses.

View the complete January 25 article by Ian Millhiser on the ThinkProgress website here.

Bluster, bombast, backing down: What happens when someone says no to Trump?

New York Mayor Ed Koch with Donald and Ivana Trump in 1983. The mayor and the mogul battled publicly for years. Credit: Ron Galella, WireImage, Getty Images

As president and during four decades in business, Donald Trump has built his brand by promoting himself as someone who never backed down. When he was hit, he often said, he’d hit back a hundred times harder.

But at pivotal moments throughout his career, when confronted by people wielding equal or greater power, Trump has proved to be someone who does back down.

This week, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pulled her invitation to President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address in the House chamber this coming Tuesday, the faceoff between congressional leader and president seemed to portend a rift that could extend well beyond the government shutdown.

View the complete January 24 article by Marc Fisher on The Washington Post website here.