Word: speaker
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...system. And it's to make money for them." In an assessment of the candidates, Tea Party leaders note that Morton has "passion to loan." The same could be said of Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party, who scrapped plans to burn effigies of Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a November rally after the idea garnered negative attention...
...President, he, like Obama, suggested he would regularly cross his party's congressional wing when he thought they were dead wrong. And Obama, like Bush, has lashed himself many times over to the political fortunes of the Capitol Hill portion of his party, allowing the agenda and vision of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, majority leader Harry Reid and a covey of mostly liberal committee chairs to define the public image of the Democratic Party and determine what his Administration can accomplish...
...filled with platitudes, anchored by an emotional anecdote. It was the sort of statement that seemed old a year ago, when the health care reform death march began. It did nothing to advance the negotiations, or to discomfort the Republicans. It followed a very similar statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging anecdotes, but not much else ... except, perhaps, another demonstration of the smug Democratic incompetence...
...even if all these pieces fall into place, there's still no assurance that the Democrats can find the votes to pass the bill in any form - especially in the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has virtually no room to maneuver: since her chamber adopted its original measure in November, a death, several retirements and the defection of the bill's lone GOP supporter have cut her five-vote margin to zero. She's facing revolts in her caucus on a number of fronts; dozens of Democrats, for instance, have given notice that they will not accept the Senate's more...
...Speaker Joshua J. Nuni ’10 lectured on his thesis on political theory, using it to segue into a discussion about the Diggers. He attended Deep Springs, a two-year college of about 25 male students in the California desert. Listening to the student speakers at the event, Nuni says that he almost felt as though he were back at Deep Springs...