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...rear when the only bill they considered this week on the House floor was one to look out for the welfare of horses. Democrats stampeded to complain. "I'm concerned about horses, but I'm much much more concerned about the American people," snapped House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Others threatened to vote "neigh" just...
...Gulf War and in a 1996 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle said, "I pride myself in being called a liberal" and "I don't consider myself a moderate." In 2001, on the strength of the votes of party progressives, Pelosi won an intense battle with Maryland's Steny Hoyer, who is more centrist, to be the No. 2 Democrat in the House. A year later she defeated another moderate, Martin Frost of Texas, to become the party's leader in the chamber...
...both contests her opponents argued that Pelosi was too liberal, and she hasn't forgotten. Her relationship with Hoyer is tense, and when Pennsylvania Representative John Murtha said he would run against Hoyer for House majority leader if Democrats won this fall, Pelosi did little to dissuade him. When Frost, who is now out of Congress, unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee last year, Pelosi repeatedly rebuffed his attempts to get her support. While she declines to discuss those conflicts, Pelosi told TIME, "Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me." Pelosi...
...again use the security issue to beat them in this fall's election, as they did in 2002 and 2004, by pointing to the vote as evidence that Democrats don't support the troops. After the vote, when asked if Republicans would use the issue to attack Democrats, Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in House, said, "I hope not, but the 60-second ads are already in the can, no matter what happens...
Murtha's candidacy puts House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in a particularly delicate position. Pelosi, a bulwark of her party's left wing who has her eye on becoming the first woman Speaker of the House, won the bitter 2001 race for Democratic whip by 23 votes over Hoyer--with Murtha as her campaign manager. They have stayed tight. But sources close to Pelosi say she had nothing to do with Murtha's surprising announcement; sources close to Hoyer suggest they don't believe that...