From the moment she took the gavel as Speaker of the House in January of 2007 to the night her Democratic Party lost its majority and access to the Speakership, Nancy Pelosi was repeatedly branded as a congressional “ultra-liberal” by the Republican Party. A few examples: South Carolina Republican Party, in a demonstrably untrue declaration: [...]

Representative Heath Shuler of North Carolina has an interesting conception of the authority of a Congressman. After complaining that Nancy Pelosi never talks to him, Shuler made a grab for sour grapes. From Politico: “Pelosi wouldn’t be welcome in his or other centrists’ districts, he said. Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Assistant Leader James [...]

Heath Shuler is challenging Nancy Pelosi for the position of Speaker of the House on the grounds that the Democrats should be led by someone who will apply the failed Blue Dog strategy to the entire Democratic caucus.

The Republican National Committee publishes an attack page this week, and it’s hard to tell whether the subject is Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota or Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: Meet Pelosi’s Puppets: Congressional Democrats who take marching orders from their Puppet Master, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, instead of you, the [...]

Four months ago, Representatives Phil Hare and Marcy Kaptur introduced H.R. 2039, the Congressional Made in America Promise Act. The legislation attempts to fix a big loophole in the Buy America Act, which required the legislative branch to buy supplies from manufacturers here in the United States. The loophole allowed administrators to evade the requirement [...]

Lois Capps starts out by expressing respect for the free speech rights of the protesters, even though she doesn’t agree with what they have to say.

It looks like Nancy Pelosi’s staff is getting a bit flustered in its efforts to communicate with the public at late. Their server is showing.

The revelations about Pelosi’s early and ongoing involvement in the Bush Administration’s torture plans create a test of the integrity of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.

Pelosi now says, “I have great confidence in Jane Harman. She is a patriotic American. She would never do anything to hurt her country.” That statement, given what Pelosi claims to have known all along about Jane Harman’s alleged attempt to interfere with an investigation into espionage against the United States, is mind boggling.

As the price of gasoline goes down, the Republicans’ twisted logic for expanded offshore oil drilling becomes increasingly incoherent. At the very least, Nancy Pelosi should seek to delay a vote on offshore drilling. Time is on the side of the opponents of new drilling.