House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who this year became the first woman ever to hold the top spot in the House of Representatives, is
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who this year became the first woman ever to hold the top spot in the House of Representatives, is writing a memoir, to be released in the summer of 2008 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
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The California congresswoman leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
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Pointing toward midterm elections, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi promises to raise the minimum wage while cutting taxes to spur economic growth and help the middle class.
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Analysis: The new House Speaker tried to assert her authority in backing John Murtha for Majority Leader. But Murtha's loss and Steny Hoyer's victory have taught her a hard lesson
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged international cooperation in tackling climate change at a meeting Tuesday with Chancellor Angela Merkel, who plans to push President Bush at next week's Group of Eight summit for action to fight global warming.
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Nancy Pelosi passed over the panelÂs top Democrat, Jane Harman, for Silvestre Reyes, who has a much lower profile.
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WASHINGTON â Congressional leaders agreed Tuesday that the House would take the lead on legislation intended to stabilize the economy, giving the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Representative John A. Boehner, the Republican leader, primary responsibility for reaching an agreement with the White House.
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Meg Whitman, CEO of online auction Web site eBay, toppled Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina from the title of the corporate world&#39;s most powerful woman, according to a new ranking by Fortune magazine.
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Working the phones and unleashing her top aides, Pelosi is trying to turn the Murtha-Hoyer battle into a powerful statement of her authority -- and what the Democrats stand for
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The incoming Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, is planning to expropriate the second-floor suite of offices now occupied by the current speaker, J. Dennis Hastert.
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Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to serve in Congress and one of the first women to seek the presidential nomination of a major party.
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Incoming Speaker Pelosi unveils a reform agenda - even as corruption probes of two Democrats proceed.
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The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday defied a White House veto threat and voted to protect millions of Americans by outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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J. Dennis Hastert will become one of the few House speakers, and the first in almost 50 years, to rejoin the rank and file.
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House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi said Monday her new Democratic majority will extend a hand to Republicans in moving the agenda of relieving the "middle-class squeeze." She said restoring the military draft will not be part of that agenda when Democrats take over the House in January.
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As the price of benchmark West Texas crude oil topped $70 a barrel for the first time in 10 months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) yesterday affirmed her support for the tougher fuel-economy standards recently passed by the Senate.
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Rep. Dennis Hastert, who vaulted out of political obscurity when Newt Gingrich resigned as speaker of the House more than seven years ago, on Thursday became the longest-serving Republican speaker in history.