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Nancy Pelosi has represented California's Eighth District in the United States House of Representatives since 1987. She was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Jan. 4, 2007. Nancy Pelosi's father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., served as Baltimore's mayor for 12 years after representing the city for five terms in Congress. Nancy Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as mayor of Baltimore. Nancy Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., in 1962.
Nancy Pelosi has represented California's Eighth District in the United States House of Representatives since 1987. She was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Jan. 4, 2007. Nancy Pelosi's father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., served as Baltimore's mayor for 12 years after representing the city for five terms in Congress. Nancy Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as mayor of Baltimore. Nancy Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., in 1962.
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Pelosi says resolution on Jackson isn't needed
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, closed the door Thursday on a resolution to honor Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life. Lawmakers are free to use...Tags: Michael Jackson, United States, Parliament, Democratic Party, Lower House
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Schiff serves as guest chaplain at U.S. House
South Florida Sun-SentinelFor Rabbi Solomon Schiff, a spiritual highlight of his rabbinical career occurred last month when Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida's 18th District invited him to serve as guest chaplain at the United States House of Representatives. Schiff,...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, United States, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Parliament, Judaism
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Former Senator Jim Talent Endorses Rep. Roy Blunt For U.S. Senate
Just seven months after the historic presidential election, the fight for Missouri is "on" again. This time it's the fight to be the next U.S. Senator from Missouri. Saturday, just seven months after the historic presidential election, the fight for...Tags: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Government, Roy Blunt, Polls
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Speaker of the House Talks Education in Des Moines
News ProducerHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined congressman Leonard Boswell and state and local officials in Des Moines on Saturday to talk education. "With the assurance that have to be met and have been met that the funds will be used as they are intended, and we... -
State Unemployment Rate Climbs to Record High
SACRAMENTO -- California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.5 percent in May, the highest in modern record-keeping, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday.
The loss of another 69,000 jobs comes as a blow to the state after unemployment dipped...Tags: Labor Legislation, Government, Laws, Unemployment, The White House
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House approves war spending bill
Washington BureauDespite opposition from anti-war liberals, the House Tuesday gave final approval to escalate the war in Afghanistan and wind down U.S. involvement in Iraq. The $106 billion war funding bill, approved 226-202, posed the toughest test yet of President...Tags: George Miller, Barack Obama, Government, Defense, United States
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Mouthpiece for left ignores real venom
Media Matters is a mouthpiece for the left and hardly a fair-minded media watchdog, and the column by Media Matters' Eric Boehlert about Glenn Beck was ridiculous ("Airing a dangerous paranoia," Commentary, April 14). He goes from complaining about...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Co., George Bush, Government, Dick Cheney, Democratic Party
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Viewpoint: The Democrats' trickle-down corruption
Some days you have to ask yourself: My God, what if these people were Republicans? Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they...Tags: Diseases, Government, Corporate Crime, Eliot Spitzer, Rod Blagojevich
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Viewpoint: With Pelosi in charge, 'truth commission' idea is dead
Forget about where you come down on "torture" or "enhanced interrogations." The simple fact is that, as a political matter, the drive for a "truth commission" - never mind a war crimes tribunal - is dead as long as Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Co., Human Rights, Barack Obama, Government, United States
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What Pelosi Knew About Waterboarding, and When
Staff WriterHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her at a secret 2002 briefing on the use of harsh interrogations in the war on terror. CIA records suggest that Pelosi, D-Calif., was told at that time that the Bush...Tags: Government, United States, Jane Harman, Ron Paul, Porter J Goss
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Obama warning on recovery
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, playing down recent talk of "glimmers of hope" for economic recovery, said Tuesday that sustained prosperity will come only if Congress moves quickly on a set of thorny issues that long have defied solution &#...Tags: American International Group, Barack Obama, Government, Productivity, Kent Conrad
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Obama begins leading America in a new direction
On the last Friday in March, President Obama summoned leaders of the banking industry to the White House, where they gathered around a mahogany table in the State Dining Room, site of many a feast. On this day there was not a piece of fruit nor can of...Tags: FBI, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Government, United States, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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