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Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 12/20/2007 Pelosi Statement on Bush Press Conference Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement responding to remarks by President Bush at a press conference at the White House this morning. Below her statement is a link to a fact sheet of accomplishments of the New Direction Congress. “While he complained about Congress this morning, even President Bush has to acknowledge the New Direction Congress’ accomplishments this year. Just this week, Congress passed a landmark energy bill, provided tax relief for 23 million American families and a budget...

Barbara Walters likes to receive Christmas greetings from high-profile celebrities and leaders, but apparently not if they refer to the Bible. On Thursday’s episode of ABC’s The View, Walters expressed dismay that President and Mrs. Bush would send out greetings containing Scripture. During the segment, Walters showed the other gals some of the “highfalutin Christmas cards,” and explained the White House card: “First of all, let me show you the cover of the White House, which is nice and bland…So that’s pleasant enough. This is what interested me, that it is a religious Christmas card. Usually in the past when...

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian military official here on Monday called on all peace movements, advocates of human rights and freedom as well as all those opposing war and terrorism to join Iran in a movement to take Bush to a war tribunal. "The US President, Georg Bush has lied to the American people and the world public opinion about Iran and Iraq, and he should take the responsibility and account for his deeds in front of the people and before the law," deputy chief of staff of Iran's armed forces said. General Seyed Masoud Jazayeri pointed...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says a swipe that Vice President Cheney took at Democratic House leaders is “beneath the dignity of his office.” Capitol Hill was abuzz Thursday with discussion of the vice president’s assertion in an interview with Politico that House Democratic leaders had been surprisingly supine: “They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.” Cheney added that when he served in the House, “We would not have had a Speaker who, from my perspective, is that far out of the sort of mainstream — she is a San Francisco Democrat, certainly entitled to her...

- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday said Republicans are targeting immigrants and told the Republican presidential candidates that the tone of their debates on the issue has become "outrageous." "Stop scapegoating immigrants and stop using immigration as a wedge issue," Mr. Dean, a 2004 presidential hopeful, said in a conference call with reporters meant to set the stage for this weekend's Republican presidential debate on Spanish-language network Univision. Mr. Dean said that in the most recent debate, Republicans used "outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.' " He urged the candidates to "have some morality and some humanity." In a...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 12/04/2007 Pelosi to President: Tone Down Rhetoric and Work With Congress Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after President Bush’s news conference at the White House this morning: “In light of the new National Intelligence Estimate, the President should re-evaluate his Iran policy, particularly his focus on the threat of military force at the expense of sustained diplomatic engagement. “Congress has passed more than half a trillion dollars this year for defense, provided our troops with additional equipment, such as mine resistant vehicles, that the...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 12/03/2007 Pelosi: ‘Instead of Working with Democrats, President Bush Trying to Prevent Progress’ Washington, D.C.— Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response to President Bush’s remarks at the White House this morning: “Democrats want to work with the President, yet he continues to engage in the same tired rhetoric that does not serve the best interests of the American people. “Democrats are hard at work on a sweeping new energy policy, tax relief for middle-class Americans, and bringing our troops home from Iraq. As always, we will...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 11/13/2007 Pelosi Statement on the President’s Veto of Labor HHS Appropriations Bill Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after President Bush vetoed the Labor HHS Education Appropriations bill this morning. Below is a fact sheet on the Labor HHS bill: “The President again vetoed a bipartisan and fiscally responsible bill that addresses the priorities of the American people: education for our children, assistance in paying skyrocketing energy costs, veterans’ health care, and other urgent health research on cancer and other serious medical problems. “At the...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 11/13/2007 Pelosi: ‘Given His Dismal Record, President Bush in No Position to Lecture Congress About Fiscal Responsibility’ Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to a speech in Indiana this afternoon by President Bush in which he compared Congress to “a teenager with a new credit card.” Below the Speaker’s statement is a fact sheet comparing the President and Congress’ fiscal records. "If President Bush applied for a credit card, any bank in America would turn him down as a bad credit risk. He...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 11/07/2007 Pelosi Statement on Record-High Oil Prices Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today as the price of oil rose to nearly $100 per barrel: “As the price of oil surges toward an historic high of $100 a barrel – almost four times the price when President Bush took office – the 110th Congress is committed to a New Direction for our nation on energy security. “For the nearly seven years of the Bush Administration, the rising cost of gas and home heating oil has been...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 10/26/2007 Pelosi to Bush: ‘The Days of the Fiscally Irresponsible Rubber Stamp Congress Are Over’ Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response to President Bush’s comments this morning: “The President fails to grasp a basic tenet of fiscal responsibility—you must pay for what you spend. The President would rather spend another $200 billion in Iraq and leave our children to pick up the tab than make fiscally sound investments in veterans’ health care, cancer research and health care for 10 million children. “Congress is...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 10/25/2007 Pelosi Statement on Vote to Approve New Children’s Health Insurance Legislation Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders held a news conference in the Capitol this evening following the vote on the revised bipartisan SCHIP bill, which passed by a vote of 265 to 142. Below are the Speaker’s opening remarks: “Today we took another step forward in providing health insurance for 10 million children. It’s an interesting vote. Although we had a number of absences on both sides, we had a situation where on the...

Republican Leadership Wrong on Cuba October 24, 2007 WASHINGTON, DC - President Bush delivered a speech today on Cuba policy after almost eight years of offering Cuban Americans empty promises, having repatriated some 8,000 Cuban refugees fleeing the Castro regime during his tenure. [New York Times, 10/23/07; AP, 10/24/07; New York Sun, 1/18/06] The President's too little, too late speech also comes after his would-be successors in the Republican Party have left a less than favorable impression after tripping over their own feet while trying to court the Cuban American community in Florida. Mitt Romney has quoted Castro and promoted...

At a presidential campaign appearance last Sunday in California, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich said he's considering introducing a new impeachment resolution against President Bush in light of statements the president has made that Kucinich interprets as a prelude to war with Iran. "This is not a funny thing I am about to say, and I want you to just be with me on it," Kucinich told an audience in Sierra Madre. "It's not funny at all. There's questions about his stability. Because, if he begins to talk openly about World War Three, I don't think anyone in their right...

Dean: Bush Republicans Blocking the American Dream October 24, 2007 Washington, DC - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement today after the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing the DREAM Act and Bush Republicans blocked consideration of the bill in the Senate: [White House Statement of Administration Policy, 10/24/07] "Senator Reid and the Democrats in Congress deserve a lot of credit for working toward solutions for border security and immigration reform. Republicans ought to be ashamed of themselves for continuing to stand in the way of both. Children who came to our country...

Senator Hillary Clinton released the following statement about the devastating wildfires that have been raging through Southern California: “I have been following the news about the wildfires that are affecting seven counties in Southern California. My heart and prayers go out to the families who have been displaced, have lost their homes, businesses or worse – have lost a loved one to these ravaging wildfires.” “My thoughts are also with the thousands of brave firefighters and first responders who are risking their lives in battling the flames and helping the victims. We are praying for your safety.” The LA Times...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 10/24/2007 Pelosi Statement on Republicans Blocking Consideration of DREAM Act Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after Senate Republicans voted to block consideration of the DREAM Act: “By blocking action on the Dream Act, Senate Republicans prevented a critical first step to address our nation’s broken immigration system. “Our immigration system needs to honor the promise of America and recognize the enormous contributions that immigrants make to our nation. But it must do so in a way that makes our nation safer, protects all workers,...

President Bush has shown that he can be empathetic, sensitive and decisive. But those qualities eluded him for days after Hurricane Katrina . . . He didn't cancel his vacation until two days after Katrina struck and didn't visit the region until four days after the storm. -- "A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina", USA Today, 9-9-05 USA Today's broadside is typical of the MSM criticism leveled at Pres. Bush for his failure to visit New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. So, now that President Bush has announced that he will be visiting California on Thursday while the wildfire...

Fred Thompson: Making it Up As He Goes... Washington, DC - Fred Thompson is in the Sunshine State again today, announcing an immigration plan that earns an A+ for political pandering, but just doesn't line up with his earlier positions on the issue. Seeing a political opening, Thompson today called for stronger laws to force employers to verify workers' legal status and to increase the enforcement of existing immigration laws yet in the Senate, he supported a temporary guest worker program for agriculture workers and voted against funding to enforce laws and fines for employing illegal immigrants already on the...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 10/22/2007 Pelosi: ‘Colossal Cost of Iraq War Grows Every Day’ Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on President Bush’s request for an additional $42 billion from Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bring the total request to $189 billion: "Demanding nearly $200 billion for Iraq while vetoing health care for 10 million children exemplifies the Bush Administration’s misplaced priorities. On key issues – from the Iraq war to children’s health insurance – the President continues to oppose the will of the American people and...