PelosiÂs Ascendancy in House Puts a Close Liberal Ally in the Spotlight
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Those who know him say that Representative George Miller and his influence on Representative Nancy Pelosi have been wrongly judged.
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Conservative advocacy groups and their allies in the House and Senate in recent days have defied not only Democrats but also moderate Republicans and even the White House. Emboldened by an election that increased their ranks, they are heading into a new term with apparent mood for bipartisanship.
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State lawmakers who reconfigured congressional maps to benefit one party over another have drawn themselves into a corner in some House districts.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who yanked embattled Rep. William J. Jefferson off a powerful tax committee last year, has decided to put him on the Homeland Security panel, aides to the Louisiana Democrat confirmed yesterday.
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Nancy Pelosi crashed through a glass ceiling when she became the first female House speaker a year ago. That turned out to be the easy part.
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To the public, Salvatore F. DiMasi is an imposing legislator, about to become the next speaker of the House and one of the most powerful men in Massachusetts.
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His inclusive approach is the way to go. But his party's failure to follow his lead is offering the Democrats an enormous political opportunity.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were "inappropriate" comments about Iraq during a congressional debate.
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Democrats could have a chance at seizing a crucial Republican U.S. Senate seat in Colorado in a neck-and-neck battle pitting a brewing magnate against a Hispanic from humble origins.
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Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who was elected to Congress only four years ago, will lead House Democrats' fundraising and recruiting efforts heading into the 2008 election, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday.
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The 110th Congress under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been called lots of things: Historic, do-nothing, ethical, overbearing and much more, based on one's political views. But now Pelosi can add one more moniker to the list: record-setting.
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House Democrats may not have won a big enough majority Tuesday night to run the chamber without help from Republicans, but their victories may have ended a historic co-speakership.
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Many of the new chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have a lot in common with the Republicans they will succeed.
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The GOP has reached almost perfect parity with Democrats. A five-seat swing could tip control in 28 chambers.
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Lawmakers look to strengthen their role after the most polarized term in a half century.
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There's been plenty of talk in the last three years about who inflicted a savage and fatal beating on millionaire investment banker Theodore Ammon &#151; much of it from Daniel Pelosi, the man on trial for the killing.
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Democrats claimed another  seat in the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a runoff  election that pitted two Latinos against each other, capping  the party's recapture of Congress last month.