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Pelosi Calls for BP to Suspend Dividends By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Thursday for BP to stop dividend payments to shareholders until small business owners hurt by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are made whole. “They made $17 billion last year, they should be paying these companies first,’’ Ms. Pelosi said, adding, “And that would be their best public relations, instead of taking out all these ads.’’ Ms. Pelosi spoke on the driveway of the White House, after she and a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders met with President Obama to discuss an...

"Call it Socialism, call it Communism, call it whatever you want.... Seize their assets. Take over BP!"

Protesters blockade Rep. Ackerman's houseboatBY JANIE LORBER | janie.lorber @newsday.com 9:31 AM EDT, July 9, 2008 WASHINGTON - A flotilla of peace protesters in canoes and rafts attempted to blockade the houseboat of Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Jamaica Estates) early Wednesday morning in reaction to legislation he submitted that would impose sanctions on Iran. The Queens Democrat emerged from his home on the Potomac River smiling and clapping after the demonstrators, known as Code Pink, had been chanting for nearly 30 minutes. They want Ackerman to withdraw the legislation because they believe it symbolizes the first step on a path to...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was interrupted repeatedly by hecklers as he and his likely Democratic presidential opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., separately addressed the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Saturday, at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. McCain was interrupted four times by protestors, three of whom were identifiable as CodePink members. Four separate interruptions (as opposed to the number of people protesting, which can vary) may tie a record for recent McCain events. In Denver in late May, McCain was interrupted four times during a foreign policy speech. One of the protestors spoke in Spanish, then translated...