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Nancy Pelosi 'Slams' Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC In 'Ad' For DISCLOSE Act

February 10, 2012 • House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi turned the tables on Stephen Colbert with a faux political ad on YouTube that calls for stopping the comedian and his superPAC by passing a bill that would that would force corporate campaign donors to reveal themselves.

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Perry's Debate Challenge To Pelosi Gives Her An Opening To Zing Him

November 17, 2011 • That Rick Perry would want to debate anyone given his own acknowledgement that he's a weak debater suggests he didn't expect Pelosi to take the bait. And he was right. Although he did give Pelosi a chance to get in a dig at his expense.

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Hope Lives For Super Panel's Success Despite Gridlock

November 3, 2011 • If second marriages are the triumph of hope over experience, so is the belief that the congressional deficit super committee in a city riven by partisan distrust will reach agreement on spending cuts by its deadline now only three weeks away.

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Pelosi's Picks Round Out Debt 'Supercomittee'

August 11, 2011 • Three forceful advocates for a progressive agenda were picked by Rep. Nancy Pelosi to fill out the supercommittee that will propose more than $1 trillion in spending cuts. Pelosi, the House minority leader, chose representatives Jim Clyburn of S. Carolina, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Xavier Becerra of California as her picks for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

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The Art Of Policlicks: Politicians Can't Get Enough Of Social Media

July 28, 2011 • With the debt-ceiling hanging Damoclean over Capitol Hill, politicians may not be speaking to each other very much, but they are using the latest technogadgetry to talk with – or, at least, to --their constituents.

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Boehner, Pelosi To Obama On Camp David Debt Talks: Don't Bother

July 14, 2011 • Camp David worked for the Israeli and Egyptian peace negotiators back in 1978 who reached an historic accord there. But that was then.President Obama was considering inviting congressional debt-ceiling negotiators to the presidential retreat in Maryland's Cacoctin Mountain Park this weekend to work on reaching a final deal, according to reports.

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Nancy Pelosi. Remember Her?

April 14, 2011 • Rep. Nancy Pelosi was at the center of the political universe a year ago. Now she seems an afterthought. She wasn't even invited to the White House session of principals who made the final agreement to prevent the shutdown.

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Pelosi Resumes Schedule After Hospital Stay

March 21, 2011 • House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi resumed her schedule in Italy after illness forced her to skip visits with Italian officials. In a statement, Pelosi's spokesman mentioned several flights she took in Afghanistan and a long flight back to Italy that occurred before she felt ill.

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Boehner: House Will Defend Defense Of Marriage Act

March 4, 2011 • Speaker Boehner said President Obama focused on social issues instead of jobs, as voters wanted. That charge led a gay rights group, Human Rights Campaign, to accuse Boehner of hypocrisy for doing what he accused the president of.

It's Official: GOP's Boehner Is Speaker Of The House

New Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-OH, takes the gavel from outgoing Speaker (now Minority Leader) Nancy Pelosi, D-CA. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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It's Official: GOP's Boehner Is Speaker Of The House

January 5, 2011 • As expected, the Ohio Republican has been elected speaker of the House, taking over from California Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

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