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27 May 2020, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release yesterday reading in part::Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the appointment of Nury Turkel, a lawyer and Uyghur rights advocate, to the U.S. [read post]
21 May 2020, 4:52 am
It's Nancy:Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, made clear that she was unmoved by the inclusion of CHIP funding in the stopgap bill. [read post]
20 May 2020, 9:39 am by Sandy Levinson
 But I suspect that some readers of my screeds against our sociopathic president will be amused by the responses of some of the Washington Post readers, who read my column, given the fact that I'm from Texas and that I express concern, rather than joy, at the prospect of Nancy Pelosi becoming president through the Act, as exhibiting my Trumpista tendencies. [read post]
18 May 2020, 6:27 am by Jack Goldsmith, Ben Miller-Gootnick
On Friday, May 15, President Trump announced in a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that he was firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. [read post]
16 May 2020, 10:10 am
 Under the Constitutional line of succession, if the President and Vice President are disabled and unable to perform their duties, then the speaker of the House- Nancy Pelosi becomes President. [read post]
14 May 2020, 1:32 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Margaret Taylor
McGovern’s latest proposal is similar to the proposed rules change he released late in April, which was briefly scheduled for a vote before Republicans convinced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to postpone. [read post]
14 May 2020, 4:05 am by Jon L. Gelman
“Since the start of this crisis, essential frontline workers have been given our deepest thanks and loudest applause,” the Senators wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:45 am by Elliot Setzer
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are planning to hold a Friday vote on a $3 trillion package to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite protests from progressives that the bill doesn’t include a “paycheck guarantee” for small-business payrolls, according to Politico. [read post]
On May 23, 2019, a deceptively edited video of Nancy Pelosi that made her seem drunk or incapacitated began circulating. [read post]
On May 23, 2019, a deceptively edited video of Nancy Pelosi that made her seem drunk or incapacitated began circulating. [read post]
11 May 2020, 11:41 am by Lisa Siegel
The House Members have written to Democrat leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi to push to retain the Maintenance of Effort provision in the next stimulus package. [read post]
11 May 2020, 1:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
The National Governors Association (NGA) has requested $500 billion in state aid,[1] a figure echoed in legislation introduced by Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), under which states and localities would share $500 billion.[2] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has indicated that she will pursue an approach under which states and localities have separate pools of funding worth about $500 billion each, yielding a $1 trillion aid package.[3] All proposals… [read post]
10 May 2020, 3:58 pm by Sandy Levinson
  But in our system, it would be like a famous couple of episodes from West Wing, for if both Trump and Pence are disabled, then Nancy Pelosi would presumably become president, if she wanted to be, unless, that is, Trump's minions in the Cabinet simply refused to enforce the 25th Amendment and, perhaps like Wilson's minions in 1919, during a similar pandemic, pretended that he was fully functioning and able to lead the country (whatever exactly that means in the Age… [read post]
9 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Absent party cross-over votes, neither party would command a majority, so that no president would be chosen (see Amendment XX), resulting in a potential constitutional crisis, or, or a legitimacy crisis in the form of a Nancy Pelosi presidency with no template for whether or when to hold an interim presidential election. [read post]
8 May 2020, 9:48 am by Editor Charlie
 The full text of the letter follows: Honorable Nancy Pelosi                                                     Honorable Kevin McCarthy Speaker                                                          … [read post]
7 May 2020, 9:05 pm by Lynn McDonough
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), however, declined the agency’s offer in a joint statement, explaining instead that the U.S. [read post]
6 May 2020, 12:01 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Margaret Taylor
Meanwhile, in the House, Republican leaders have pushed back against efforts by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move toward remote voting. [read post]
5 May 2020, 6:32 am by Associated Press
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to swear in Mfume on Tuesday morning in Washington. [read post]