U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D - CA)
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
A member of a politically involved family, both her father and her brother served as Mayor of Baltimore. Her father was also a U.S. Representative from Maryland. Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in 1962. While at Trinity she interned for Democratic Senator Daniel Brewster. After marrying, she moved to San Francisco with her husband and began working in politics, eventually becoming Northern California Democratic Party Chairwoman in 1997. She was elected to Congress in 1987. She was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007 and then became the first woman Speaker of the House.She is currently serving her 12th term in the House of Representatives.
Birthday March 26, 1940
Committees: Speaker
The Issues:Find our where Rep. Pelosi stands on the issues
Other: Married, Catholic, has five children and seven grandchildren
A member of a politically involved family, both her father and her brother served as Mayor of Baltimore. Her father was also a U.S. Representative from Maryland. Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in 1962. While at Trinity she interned for Democratic Senator Daniel Brewster. After marrying, she moved to San Francisco with her husband and began working in politics, eventually becoming Northern California Democratic Party Chairwoman in 1997. She was elected to Congress in 1987. She was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007 and then became the first woman Speaker of the House.She is currently serving her 12th term in the House of Representatives.
Birthday March 26, 1940
Committees: Speaker
The Issues:Find our where Rep. Pelosi stands on the issues
Other: Married, Catholic, has five children and seven grandchildren
Number of Questions Asked: 7
Number of Answers Provided: 4
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I have a follow up question for Nancy Pelosi, because her previous response to AYL wasn't very specific. How exactly to you propose to make sure that the USA's growing financial indebtedness to China won't hinder our ability to advocate for a human rights agenda with China? Please be very specific.
Asked 15 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
by Deborah F. from Boston, MA
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I have a follow up question for Nancy Pelosi, because her previous response to AYL wasn't very specific. How exactly to you propose to make sure that the USA's growing financial indebtedness to China won't hinder our ability to advocate for a human rights agenda with China? Please be very specific.
Asked 15 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
by Deborah F. from Boston, MA
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As our federal government becomes more financially indebted to China, it becomes more difficult for us to hold the latter accountable for its human rights violations. How do you propose to address this dilemma?
Asked by: Ayl G. from New York, NY. Received 5 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
REPORTER’S NOTE: This question was asked and answered amid a cluster of reporters that followed the Speaker as she walked quickly through a crowded Capitol. This accounts for the occasional bumps and slightly breathless quality in the audio. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): As you may know I visited China in May and had as my guest the Chair of National People’s Congress.
Answered on Oct 26th, 2009 More
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What are you willing to do to make sure that the remainder of the 110th Congress is productive considering it is an election year? What will your legislative priorities be?
Asked by: Elvin J. from Nashville, TN. Received 16 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Democrats have returned for this second session of this Congress reinvigorated and ready to tackle the problems challenging our country. We come back to this new direction Congress focusing on the economy. It has been clear for the past few weeks that all sectors of the economic world, all shades of opinion in the economic world are saying to us that a stimulus is needed to avoid a downturn or to worsen the situation.
Answered on Jan 16th, 2008 More
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More than 21 million toys made in China have been recalled this year. Should the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission resign?
Asked by: DC P. from Washington, DC. Received 33 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
“I came from the kitchen to the Congress. I came as a Mom wanting to make sure that public policy did whatever it could do that parents couldn’t do to protect its children and the trust that parents across the country would like to have in the federal government is completely unjustified when we see how lax the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been with its acting chairperson saying we don’t need any more resources and we don’t need any more authority.”
Answered on Dec 6th, 2007 More
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Would you work with the White House to find a compromise on funding Children’s Health Insurance?
Asked by: DC P. from Washington, DC. Received 2 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
“Well, I haven’t had any overture from the White House on what they might consider an appropriate next step. What I do know is that in the House we compromised from a $90 billion dollar bill to a $35 billion dollar bill in order to have bipartisanship and to have it pass the United States Senate.”
Answered on Nov 6th, 2007 More
