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...course, much of the party's leadership on Capitol Hill, such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as House and Senate Majority Leaders Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid, haven't picked candidates either, so the freshmen may have some cover when push comes to shove. But once all the primary voting is done, every superdelegate will theoretically be left to make up his or her own mind. And in that case, the biggest decision the Democratic Party could face in a generation may fall to the rawest of recruits. But, then again, perhaps that shouldn't be such...
...steady erosion in relations between the Obama and Clinton camps - less than a week has passed since Obama's foreign policy advisor (and TIME columnist) Samatha Power called Clinton "a monster" - was almost certainly one reason why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Tuesday that the chances of a joint ticket between the two Democrats were now impossible...
...retroactive immunity for the telecoms. The Democrats have offered two compromises: a court review of the issue to see if retroactive immunity is warranted, and a transfer of liability for past lawbreaking from the telecoms to the government. The Senate rejected both, and 21 House Democrats urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to do the same, but she and other Democratic leaders are unwilling to back down...
...NANCY PELOSI The Speaker of the House wields power and has influence over party leaders...
...have a war and we're still going to have terrorist threats and so forth. But this is what I fear. I have looked in the future. And you're going to have probably a Congress with even larger Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. I mean, Pelosi's out there saying that she thinks Obama can bring 75 new seats. Let's say they have sizable increases in their voting majorities. You and I know that Presidents like to get things done, and they define getting things done in terms of legislation and other things. Here...