'The American people are worth it': Pelosi defends $3T virus aid package
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the stunning $3 trillion price tag on Democrats' pandemic relief package as what is needed to confront the “villainous virus” and economic collapse.
Pelosi reportedly drafting $750B bill to aid state, local governments
close Secretary Mnuchin on lost jobs, toll coronavirus pandemic is taking on US economy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly drafting legislation that would assist states and local governments that have seen their economy contract amid the coronavirus pandemic, but any new bill is expected to face resistance from Republicans who’ve said they have been largely left out of negotiations.
House Speaker pushes ahead on massive virus bill, but GOP wary
Even in absentia, House Democrats are seeking to drive the debate on the fifth coronavirus response bill, promising to produce a mega-package stuffed with Democratic priorities even as a chorus of GOP leaders voices hesitation about more spending.
Nancy Pelosi is latest high-profile Democrat to endorse Joe Biden
The House speaker said Biden would be a “voice of reason and resilience” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pelosi seeking at least $1 trillion for next coronavirus bill
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that another $1 trillion is needed for the next coronavirus rescue package.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doles out impeachment pens, a signing tradition
One by one, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picked up pens lined up beside her and used them to sign a bit of her name on the impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. Then she handed each signing pen to the assembled chairmen and House managers who will prosecute the case in the Senate.
What to watch ahead of Trump's Senate trial
Hear ye, hear ye: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hitting the send button on President Donald Trump's impeachment.
Pelosi: Power of gavel means Trump is 'impeached forever'
Nancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would "show the power of the gavel.”
Nancy Pelosi demands impeachment trial info before sending charges
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on Thursday that before she will send the Republican Senate the articles of impeachment her Democratic chamber approved against President Donald Trump, GOP leaders must provide more detail about how they will handle the expected trial.
President Trump impeached by US House, 3rd in history
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Judiciary vote sends 2 impeachment charges to full House
Democrats propelled President Donald Trump’s impeachment toward a historic vote by the full U.S. House as the Judiciary Committee on Friday approved charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. It's the latest major step in the constitutional and political storm that has divided Congress and the nation.
'No choice but to act': Pelosi says House will draft impeachment articles against Trump
In the historic announcement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was authorizing the drafting of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Is the anti-Trump suburban revolt escalating? Watch Virginia elections
Republican state Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant wanted to avoid talking about President Donald Trump as she courted voters this week on Ridgefield Green Way just outside Virginia's capital city. The middle-aged man at one door didn't want to talk about anything else.
Thomas D'Alesandro III, former Baltimore mayor and Nancy Pelosi's brother, dies at 90
Thomas D'Alesandro III, onetime mayor of Baltimore and brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died at 90.
Washington plunges into Trump impeachment probe
Washington plunged into an impeachment crisis on Wednesday, as House Democrats opened an investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign season dealings with Ukraine. Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine's president to look into Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript released by the White House.
Democrats: Trump should demand Senate gun bill vote
If President Donald Trump is serious about strengthening gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, he should demand that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put a House-passed bill strengthening background checks up for a vote, congressional Democrats said Monday.
Trump: 'Democrats always play the race card'
President Trump is defending himself against accusations of racism, claiming he’s just the latest target of a party that plays the “race card,” as he leveled criticism against Rep.
Senate fails to pass 2 bills to end shutdown
A splintered Senate swatted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown on Thursday, leaving President Donald Trump and Congress with no obvious formula for halting the longest-ever closure of federal agencies and the damage it is inflicting around the country.
Trump links drugs, crime to lack of border wall
President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of the government shuttered for 19 days.
