Nancy Pelosi Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi to speak at law school graduation
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi will be the speaker at the University of Baltimore School of Law's graduation ceremony. Pelosi, former Speaker of the House who has represented San Francisco in Congress for 25 years, is a Baltimore native. She will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at the ...
State Democrats in celebratory mood at convention
California Democrats are meeting this weekend to celebrate their November election victories and look ahead to next year, when they hope to solidify their grip on state politics. While the annual convention in Sacramento comes during an off-cycle election year, it provides potential candidates for future office an opportunity to ...
KTVU.com talks to Jello Biafra
Former Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra started Alternative Tentacles in 1979 expressly to put out music by the seminal SF punk band prior to their disintegration in 1986 after the DKs highly publicized obscenity trial. By then, the label became a cornerstone of the burgeoning underground punk scene. The ...
Anti-war mom Sheehan kicks off bike tour for peace on anniversary of son's death in Iraq
Bay Area anti-war activist and mother Cindy Sheehan is leaving Thursday morning on a three-month, cross-country bicycle tour to call for peace in honor of her son, who was killed in Iraq nine years ago today. At about 10:30 a.m., Sheehan was getting on her bike at the Vacaville gravesite ...
Obama raises Bay Area money for Democrats
Making a down payment on his vow to go all in for Democrats in 2014, President Barack Obama is courting well-heeled Bay Area donors on a two-day fundraising jaunt that requires the president to walk a fine line: Berate Republicans too much, and Obama could put fragile prospects for achieving ...
Obama fundraises, catches Keystone heat in SF
President Barack Obama is raising money for the Democratic Party in California, eager to weaken his Republican opposition in Congress even as he confronts protests from his liberal flank over a contested oil pipeline project that is awaiting approval from his administration. Obama was attending four fundraisers for Democrats in ...
Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act
President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks against women a year and a half after it lapsed amid partisan bickering. The revitalized Violence Against Women Act also marked an important win for gay rights advocates and Native Americans, who will ...
Obama says he can't 'Jedi mind meld' a budget deal
A combative President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers Friday for failing to stop automatic spending cuts that were to begin kicking in later in the day, arguing he can't perform a "Jedi mind meld" to get Republicans to agree on a deal. Republicans said the fault was his, for insisting ...
Here come the automatic cuts
Seventeen months after approving a debt limit deal which included across the board budget cuts as a last resort for deficit control, Congress adjourned for the weekend without taking any action on the sequester, as $85 billion in budget cuts will start going into effect on Friday night. "Americans know ...
Democrats move on automatic budget cuts
After months of finger pointing over who is to blame for billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts, Democrats in the House and Senate rolled out plans to avert cuts scheduled to hit on March 1, as House Republicans said they would not act on any budget measure until the ...
Long running SF musical pays homage to 49ers
Just days till the Superbowl, everyone in the Bay Area is getting excited, even the folks over at Beach Blanket Babylon. Beach Blanket Babylon at Club Fugazi in SF, the longest running musical revue in theatre history, recently paid homage to the 49ers. Actors and actresses performed a special Superbowl ...
Groundbreaking begins on St. Anthony dining room
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other dignitaries broke ground Thursday on a building in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood that will house both a beloved dining room for low-income and homeless people and a senior housing complex. The 10-story building being constructed at the corner ...
Alex Pelosi's Sundance debut has political angle
Alexandra Pelosi was beaming: She had just made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the HBO documentary "Fall to Grace," about former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey; her mother, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was on hand to witness it; and Sundance's founder and Pelosi's hero, Robert Redford, made it a point ...
Pelosi defends altered photo of congresswomen
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday defended an altered picture of Democratic congresswomen that was posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site. The photo showed four House members who were not in the original picture, which was taken Thursday, when lawmakers were sworn in as members of the 113th Congress. ...
Speaker Boehner dodges a second ballot
Earlier this week I talked on the radio about how I had been told by a Republican member to keep a close eye on the vote for Speaker on the first day of the 113th Congress. After it was all over, I was prowling the hallways outside the House Chamber ...
More fiscal clashes loom as new Congress opens
A new Congress opened for business Thursday to confront long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and crisis-driven era of divided government. "The American dream is in peril," said House Speaker John Boehner, re-elected to his post despite a mini-revolt in Republican ranks. Moments after ...
Fiscal cliff deal forged in flurry of final talks
Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that strained America's divided government to the limit. The bill's passage on a ...
Cliff avoided: Congress staves off tax hikes
Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that strained America's divided government to the limit. The bill's passage on a ...
Not solved yet: GOP wants more cliff spending cuts
Emergency legislation to avoid the economy-threatening fiscal cliff ran into vehement New Year's Day opposition from House Republicans, casting doubt on the divided government's ability to prevent widespread tax increases and painful, across-the-board federal spending cuts. "I do not support the bill. We are looking, though, for the best path ...
Doctors: Blood clot located in Clinton's head
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton developed a blood clot in her head but did not suffer a stroke or neurological damage, her doctors said Monday. They say they are confident that she will make a full recovery. In a statement that revealed the location of the clot, Clinton's doctors ...
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