Tag: Nancy Pelosi
Polis flare-up: freshman turns politics upside down on health-care reform
What is wealthy Boulder Democratic Congressman Jared Polis doing? Polis believes the proposed tax policy that would pay for health-care reform would be...
Pelosi to Pastor Ted: What words of comfort?
Controversy magnet Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor felled in a gay sex and drug scandal, is in the news once again. This time it involves no less than the pinnacle of conservative political targets: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
No cake walk for victorious Democrats
In the wake of Tuesday’s elections — which swept a Democrat into the White House and widened the party’s margins in the Senate and the House — it’s tempting to conclude that the Democrats’ legislative challenges just eased, that the days of GOP obstructionism are over and that the party’s congressional leaders will have their way next year on Capitol Hill.
It would also be misleading.
What about energy? Democrats tailor their answer as the debate shifts
In a rambunctious press conference that could forecast the tone of the energy debate to come, House Democratic leaders clashed with Republican supporters in Denver Tuesday over each party's approach to offshore oil drilling.
Colorado: The energy battleground
Judging by the volume and venom of TV attack ads in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race – mostly focused on the wildly divergent energy policies of Democratic Rep. Mark Udall and former Republican Rep. Bob Schaffer -- the state’s not only a key battleground in the presidential race but also the front line in the political struggle to dramatically reform the country’s outmoded energy policies.
Nancy Pelosi makes a pre-DNC pit stop
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be making a public appearance tonight in Denver before she hunkers down next week as the Democratic National Convention chair. After 20 years in Congress, Pelosi became the first female speaker last year.