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Subscribe to RSSUpdated 10:42 a.m. - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told fellow House Democrats today that she will run to keep her leadership position, likely extending her tenure as Democratic leader for another two years.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2102, with newly elected Democratic House members.
"I have made a decision to submit my name to my colleagues to once again serve as the House Democratic leader," Pelosi said Wednesday at a press conference following a meeting with fellow Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
On the 10th anniversary of her election as Democratic leader, Pelosi said her colleagues had made their desire for her to remain as leader "very clear." There had been mounting speculation that the 72-year-old California Democrat might step aside and yield to younger figures in the party.
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Pelosi served two terms as speaker of the House, the first woman to ever hold that role, from 2007-2011, during which time she oversaw House passage of President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law. She has also taken a special interest in advancing legislation intended to address the effects of climate change, prompting a vote on a "cap-and-trade" bill in 2009 which eventually stalled in the Senate.
Republicans seemed almost giddy about the announcement.
"There is no better person to preside over the most liberal House Democratic Caucus in history than the woman who is solely responsible for relegating it to a prolonged minority status," said Paul Lindsay, the communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
As part of her decision to stay aboard, Pelosi said that New York Rep. Steve Israel had agreed to serve a second term as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Israel helped Democrats pick up seats in the most recent election.
Pelosi's decision also means the top leadership in the House would presumably remain the same for the next two years:
-- John Boehner as speaker
-- Eric Cantor as majority leader
-- Pelosi as minority leader
-- Steny Hoyer as minority whip.
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how can anyone with a 1/2 a brain, not see the elitist, and 1% smile on her smug and ugly face, this single woman has injured the Democratic party immeasurably, and you have to throw in Reid, and Emperor Obama, worthless,
she is an arrogant scum bag fraud......odd that she is not from Chicago!
Sounds to me like a description of a republican(arrogant scum bag fraud)... you all are just upset that she's a democrat...
Nancy Pelosi does a good job of taking on all the negative banter directed at her by the Republicans. That said, both she and Steny Hoyer need to let others step up into leadership positions. They are perceived as 'old guard' Democrats who are not really attuned to the emerging reality following this election.
Hanging on just to reclaim the Speakership is silly; the Democrats may not take the House in '14.
I don't think there is a man out there that wants to be President, that was evident when they scapped up Obama.
Remember, this is the bitch that called Americans terrorists!
Who cares what that old Hag is doing? 2014 should be the Remove ALL Incumbents election cycle.
I adore Pelosi's ability to talk about the 47% as if she were one....she is a multi millionaire (just like many of the dems) but says repeatedlty that she is "one of regular people".....Just another LIEberal Democratic fraud! Oh and she would like the personally thank the 2 people who bought her book!
Smart and powerful - yes, smart enough to fly her spouse, children, and grandchildren across country on a private jet weekly eating catered food and drinks at the expense of the American taxpayer. She needs to look at California - her state and just weep for those people. She owes them and all of us an apology and she has truly made money off the backs of the American people. She needs to be ashamed of herself with a leadership value about the same as Marie Antoinette or Imelda Marcos.
she is a total fraud and the idiots who support her are fools!
Oh please. How many THOUSANDS of pols, military brass (not on the battlefield) and DC staffers are flying around on government jets or at our expense to who knows where? IT'S WRONG, I agree. But stop acting as if this weren't the norm in our country anymore. They should stop just about all of it, in my opinion. The President on a 747? Ordered under a republican administration. Really! She ain't that high on the pole. Grow up.
Yankee Boy--well, My long time Dem Congressman from MO, Ike Skelton, flew back and forth from DC to MO, but HE flew commercial, and coach. I know, because I actually was on a plane with him once.
And as a long time Chair of the House Armed Forces Committee, he no doubt could have made the excuse of visiting Whiteman AFB and used a military jet to make the trip. He DID NOT.
And guess what--he was well over 6 feet tall, and partially handicapped. The only reason why Nancy was able to use a government jet was she was 3rd in line for the presidency, and as such had to have Secret Service protection.
But since she is no longer 3rd in line (LOL--that would be BOEHNER now! ) she had BETTER not still be flying home to CA on a government jet.
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/pelosis-party-plane/
http://factcheck.org/2008/12/nancy-pelosis-personal-jet/
Actually, I have a lot of respect for Boehner. But he let himself be kicked around the last two years by these brainless, newbie tea pots, instead of being a LEADER and taking control of his troops. He could learn a lot from a grandmother from San Francisco.
Most of us do not elect a Representative who we want to be led by ideologues like Pelosi or Boehner. I especially do not like the extremists and I do not want my representative to be pushed around by one. The way things are now, America has 5 combating antagonist leaders, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Boehner and McConnell. None of which care about anything more than keeping their grip on power over the people.
If we had term limits in the house and senate these politicians wouldn't be there long enough to learn how to steal from us and line their pockets! If they are limited to no more than two terms they could do something other than lobby for re-election campaign money and prostitute themselves for that money!
Other wise the same old chit in Washington, and before you libtards start bitching there needs to be new blood in both the house and the senate, otherwise we will never be able to move forward and see positive change. There needs to be term limits to get new faces in their and break the stalemate that we have been in for the last 4 years AND IT IS NOT JUST THE REPUBLICANS HOLDING THINGS UP!!
The Dem's are trying their best to lose my vote with this garbage choice. She is a major reason they lost the majority in the house. I guess I need to send a message in the MidTerms in 2 years and express my displeasure by voting for the Republicans to expand their control of the house!
Yeah, this is a big surprise...democrats doubling down on lunacy.
Try it. You might win an election.
I cannot believe we have these people representing us and we keep paying them. Pelosi and Reid are pitiful. Any republicans out there can agree but then your people are basket cases too. This just happens to be about her. It is the same as responding to the accusation that Romney is a draft dodger by saying that Clinton did too. So what? Doesn't keep Romney from being one. I am amazed that one side justifies its position by pointing to the deficiencies of the other side.
Don't get me started on that piece of sh*t Harry Reid....Mr. Land Deal himself....and the stupid Dem votors don't seem to have a clue what these leaders are scamming them out of.....effing ignorant sheep you people are.
She's using too many fingers in that gesture
She was a lightning rod. The better move, along with a new day following the election, would have been to step aside and for Steny Hoyer to take over.
In the big picture, it doesn't matter. The Dems are still in the minority. But Obama's President; if he holds firm, others can work to help bring along few Republicans in the House.
Besides: being minority leader, with Boehner-Cantor on the other side: that's no picnic.
Oh well the President and the puppetmaster and Harry Reid the puppeteer will still be here. They don't read bills, they just pass them.
More bills that they will pass to find out what is in them! Same house minority speaker, same results! Noise from the left.
With Pelosi's level of self-love and arrogance was this really a surpise? Sure, she'll push to get anything passed but as long as it has a (D) behind it 100%, she could care less what the bill actually says.
How many more bills will pass by with her smiling and saying, "we have to pass it to find out what is in it". (Sorry Walter..your post hadn't come up yet as I was still typing :) )
Same in 2012 . . . looking forward to 2014 . . . DEM/DEM/DEM . . . then the work of the people can commence.
Yeah, we had DEM/DEM/DEM from 2008-2010...and what did we get? We got 10% unemployment, explosive debt growth and no budget. Yup, let's look forward to that all-righty.
Like they did in 2009/2010 when the dem had the house and the senate
Not a good day for bi-partisanship.
Call me crazy, but I want lawmakers to read what's in legislation to know what's in it...not pass it to know what's in it.
Radical, I know.
We gotta pass this thing so we can see whats in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GIMMIE A BREAK!
They still don't. Corporations and states are currently attempting to figure it out because no one in Washington seems to understand it as well (i.e. one of those "unintended consequences" of rolling downhill). That's the joke of it. There is a word that the Greeks are now comprehending - austerity. The U.S. population will be learning this in fairly short order. But until then - party on!
OBAMA Beyond impeachment, Obama treasonous over Benghaz, When you put your own reelection above the good of your country and the lives of its citizens? If so, Barack Obama committed treason in leaving the four Americans to die in Benghazi. Our Constitution defines it this way: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Aid and comfort to the enemy — what is that? Your Spineless,
And the Bitch takes her broom back. I hope the witch trips down the stairs.
why - she is a waste of time, space and air - she can't find her own a** with both hands let alone help this country