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Less than a week after she oversaw passage of an historic health care bill in the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (D-Calif.) described the difficulties of building consensus behind the controversial legislation to a packed forum at the Institute of Politics last Friday...
Pelosi’s talk focused mostly on the process of shaping the health care bill and securing its passage in the House...
...emphasized her optimism that a final bill would eventually pass the Senate and reach President Obama’s desk...
When the floor was opened for audience questions, Pelosi was repeatedly asked about the issue of abortion and the Stupak Amendment, an addition to the House health care bill that forbids the use of federal money to pay for abortion...
...There are some who do not support health care reform, who want to use this issue to eclipse all the other wonderful things that are in our bill,” she said...