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...PELOSI Yes, exactly. The point is, What are the lessons learned from Katrina? Katrina still lingers. The challenge is still there for us. We have to address the issue of natural disasters in a way that doesn't say that your survival depends on your economic well-being...
...PELOSI I'm not sure you would have asked a man that about another man. But since this is unusual, I will respect your question. I think it's really important for the people of our country to see that women can wield power and success in this rarefied and high altitude of power. I don't think Hillary Clinton, though, needs any validation from any other woman. She is an experienced Senator, articulate and a force in her own right...
GEORGE W. BUSH He gave up his stay-the-course catchphrase, told people that terrorists wanted the Democrats to win and even admitted, you know, things in Iraq weren't going that well. Yet in the end, he was offering Nancy Pelosi the names of some good "Republican interior decorators," which means the G.O.P. is a bigger tent than we thought...
Alaska elected Republican Sarah Palin its first female Governor. Democrat Carol Shea-Porter will become the first woman to represent New Hampshire in the House. The new Congress will be 16% female--an all-time high. And the House is expected to have its first female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who said, "Maybe it takes a woman to clean House...
...been used to describe what it's like to be in charge of Congress have always suggested that the titles Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader were someone's idea of a joke. But now that the high fives and jubilant photo ops are behind them, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have to run the place. Whether anything is actually accomplished on Capitol Hill over the next two years will depend largely on the skills these two leaders develop in maneuvering through the tricky challenges ahead...