Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosiis the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She is the only woman to have served as the House Speaker and to date is the highest-ranking female politician in American history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 March 1940
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
The Republican budget was about increasing the deficit, cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the middle class and hurting those who need our help most -- hurricane survivors, seniors, students, and rural Americans. Democrats were united and made those issues too hot to handle for Republicans.
The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.
The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.
It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.
What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.
On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.
And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.
Michael Brown has no qualifications for the job. He proved that last week. He removed all doubt.
We intend to do it on the first day we take over the House of Representatives.
Just because he says things are improving there, doesn't make it so.
The president does a disservice to the troops and the American people when he tries to silence those asking questions about putting our men and women in uniform in harm's way,
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.