Nancy Pelosi

If I just might direct the record to another place, why don't we just leave this room today, forgetting the word 'earmark.' This is legislatively directed spending, as opposed to executive spending.

If I just might direct the record to another place, why don't we just leave this room today forgetting the word earmark? This is legislatively directed spending as opposed to executive spending.

We have raised the minimum wage for millions of hardworking Americans.

The speaker was unaware there was no Republican on Barney Frank's trip to Brussels and London. The speaker does not approve most trips.

The meeting was disappointing.

Since January, a majority of the Members of this House have been working to change course and change the mission in Iraq. Our goals are clear: Strengthen our military; bring stability to the region; and make the American people safer by…

We're trying to turn around six years of no oversight and no acting on behalf of America's consumers.

The war in Iraq has made matters worse in the war on terrorism. Now into the fifth year of a failed policy, this administration should get a clue. It's not working.

But make no mistake, Democrats are committed to ending this war and we hope to do so in unison with the president of the United States.

Whatever our difference is, we owe it to the American people to find our common ground. Of course, we must stand our ground if we can't find it, but we must strive to find that common ground.

The president vetoed the bill outright, and, frankly, misrepresented what this legislation does. This bill supports the troops. In fact, it gives the president more than he asked for, for our troops.

The president wants a blank check. The Congress is not going to give it to him.

In the last election, the American people called for a new direction. Nowhere were they more firm in that new direction being necessary than in the war in Iraq.

This is an ethical issue. This isn't a political issue. I respect where the president is coming from on this. I wish he would respect where we are coming from, which is a reflection of where the American people are coming from.

We think it's a good idea to establish the facts, to hopefully build some confidence between us. We have no illusions, but we have great hope.

We think it's a good idea. We have no illusions, but we have great hope.

It's a good idea to establish the facts, to hopefully build some confidence between us.

The speaker says she's just following recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which calls for constructive engagement with Syria to build an international consensus for stability in Iraq.

It voted no to giving a blank check to an open-ended commitment to war without end to the president of the United States, and yes to begin the end of the war and the redeployment of our troops.

By July of 2007, if progress is not demonstrated, if the president cannot certify that progress is made, we begin the redeployment of our troops out of a combat role in Iraq.

The bipartisan resolution today may be nonbinding, but it will send a strong message to the president.

All of these have been vetted through the committee process. Some of them have even passed on the floor.

... a Congress that will pass legislation the first 100 hours to make American people safer, make our economy fairer, make our Congress more honest and build a better future for all of America's children.

The 100 hours will begin tomorrow, so that we could have given three-day layover as we promised we would, so that everyone would have a chance to see the bill.

Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.