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Nancy Pelosi

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Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician serving as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since January 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has represented California's 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives since 1987, making her one of the longest-serving members of Congress. Pelosi is the first woman to hold the office of Speaker, a role in which she has played a significant part in shaping legislative priorities and party strategy.

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Aug 16, 2020

The president says he wants to save the post office now. We have to save the post office from the president now.

msnbc.com
Aug 16, 2020

Speaker Pelosi making it plain she thinks Trump wants to -- quote -- 'sabotage the election' and disenfranchise voters by kneecapping the way that many ballots would be handled and counted, through the mail.

msnbc.com
Aug 13, 2020

The postal service, an all-American institution. I heard you earlier talk about what it means in terms of connecting family. We're talking here about how it delivers medicine. And again, at the time of a pandemic, how necessary it is for…

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Aug 12, 2020

We put $25 billion. That figure is the figure that was recommended by the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service, 100 percent appointed by Donald Trump. The president is afraid of the American people. He's been afraid for a while…

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Aug 10, 2020

Last week, they came up with some meager proposals, and the president then over the weekend did even less to give an illusion so that the market would go up and people would think we're not paying attention that he might be doing something.

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Aug 9, 2020

I can't envision a situation. But here it is, in middle of pandemic, three months ago, we passed the HEROES Act in House of Representatives to meet the needs of the American people.

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Aug 9, 2020

Well, thank you, Joy, for the opportunity to be with you. Congratulations on REIDOUT. We're all excited about your new show. An opportunity to talk about issues of concern to America's working families, and that's not what the president is…

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Aug 9, 2020

At that time, Leader McConnell pushed the pause button.

msnbc.com
Aug 9, 2020

What we're seeing is illusion. It's important to enlarge the issue to understand that what the president does is say, I'm doing things to help people, which he isn't.

msnbc.com
Aug 9, 2020

Well, no I can't envision a situation.

msnbc.com
Aug 9, 2020

With you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin.

msnbc.com
Aug 9, 2020

In a number of months, we'll have that table full with many more women appointed by President Joe Biden.

msnbc.com
Aug 9, 2020

The American people deserve better than partisan politics.

speaker.gov
Jul 28, 2020

We need more equipment. And the reason everybody isn't tested because there isn't enough equipment to test everyone.

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Jul 28, 2020

We have the tools at our disposal: testing, tracing, treatment, isolation, mask wearing, sanitation to hold this virus in check, to try to beat it.

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Jul 28, 2020

The members cannot come on to the floor of the House, unless they have a mask and I, as Speaker have directed the sergeant-at-arms, the Capitol Police to refuse entry into the hall if people don't have on a mask.

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Jul 28, 2020

A plague that has an impact on our economy and it's about the lives of the American people, the livelihood of the American people and the life of our democracy.

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Jul 28, 2020

Well, central to all of that is to get rid of this virus and that's why I keep coming back to the fact, we can open our economy, we can improve the situation if we follow science, but if you don't believe in science, and you don't believe…

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Jul 28, 2020

This is a way for us to open our economy, facilitate opening our schools by reducing the rate of infection in our communities.

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Jul 28, 2020

We've asked the president to have the Defense Production Act, go into action to insist that our businesses produce this equipment -- this equipment -- he just won't do it.

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Jul 27, 2020

We call on you to include emergency supplemental funding to preserve Amtrak, the critical services it provides, and the livelihoods of its employees.

congress.gov
Jul 22, 2020

I am proud to stand with my colleagues in support of this legislation.

thehill.com
Jul 9, 2020

I think it's a terrible idea. Just look at this administration, the President and his henchmen, so many of his friends, advisors, campaign chairman, et cetera, are in jail, and for the President to be able to issue a pardon on the basis of…

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Jul 9, 2020

In all of the countries of the world that had been successful in curtailing the spread of the virus, or at least to in some cases ended, they've had a centralized leadership and that leadership has to have a strategic plan based on science.

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Jul 9, 2020

The President has been a failure in every way, right from the start his denial, calling it a hoax, his delay, and all the rest have gotten us into a very bad place.

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