Posted on 03/30/2007 12:12:54 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi makes second visit to Middle East
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) arrived in Israel on Friday and planned to visit Syria, a country the Bush administration has shunned, on her second fact-finding trip to the Middle East since taking the gavel in January.
Pelosi's repeat trip to the Middle East indicates she has no intention of letting the White House have the sole province on foreign policy. She has already forced legislation through the House that would order all combat troops out of Iraq by September 2008, a measure that resembles a similar measure approved by the Democratic-run Senate.
The Bush administration has mostly refused to engage Syria diplomatically because of its ties to terrorist networks. U.S. officials held their first direct, high-level contact with Syrian representatives in years this month when they met with officials from several Middle East countries in Baghdad to discuss Iraq.
Others traveling with Pelosi were Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison (news, bio, voting record) of Minnesota, Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record) and Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record) of California, and Nick Rahall (news, bio, voting record) of West Virginia, and Ohio Republican David Hobson (news, bio, voting record). Ellison is the first Muslim member of Congress.
The House has adjourned for a two-week spring break.
The group planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and to travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Ellison's spokesman, Rick Jauert.
The speaker plans to address the Israeli Knesset on Sunday in what will be her first address to a foreign government and as the highest ranking American woman to speak before the Israeli parliament, according to Pelosi's office.
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Subversion of U.S. Policy. She will surrender the U.S. to the Muslims...
LOL!
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