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Pelosi Floor Speech Calling on House GOP to Work for Future of America, Not Cut and Run from Town

“We still have work to do to continue the American recovery. If the Republicans had cooperated at all with President Obama in the last two years, we’d be much farther down the road to recovery. We cooperated with President Bush but they would not offer an ounce of cooperation to President Obama and our economy has paid the price. We have reaped the benefits of some of what happened in the two years when we were in the majority and President Obama, in the first two years of his term. But so much more could have been done with some cooperation from the Republicans"

September 21, 2012

Pelosi Floor Speech on GOP Sequester Bill

“But if you need only to see how we differ, just look at the Ryan-Romney-Republican budget. Their blueprint says we’re going to end Medicare, we’re going to make seniors pay $6,000 more as we end Medicare and we’re going to give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in our country. That’s not fair. That’s not balanced. But that is what would happen if the Republican bill were to become law, it would enact the Ryan bill."

September 13, 2012

Pelosi Floor Speech Calling on House GOP to Address Challenges Facing Americans, Not Head Out of Town

“Mr. Speaker, this Republican Majority is prepared to adjourn the House of Representatives to leave for the August District Work Period without accomplishing what the American people have sent us here to do. They want us to create jobs, they want us to reduce the deficit, and they want us to give a middle income tax cut, which the President has suggested and the American people overwhelmingly support. Instead we have no jobs agenda, no tax cuts for the middle class, no farm bill, no Violence Against Women Act, no cybersecurity strategy, no balanced, bipartisan plan to prevent the sequester. The only thing the Republicans have done is to increase the uncertainty that threatens another debt crisis and undermines our economic growth."

August 02, 2012

Pelosi Floor Speech Calling on House GOP to End Economic Uncertainty by Preventing Tax Hike on Middle-Income Families

“The bill provides for fairness to the middle class and ends uncertainty, as I mentioned. The Republican alternative, which says: ‘not only do we want to give 100 percent of the American people a tax cut, we want to give a bigger and better tax cut to people making over $250,000 year.’ Two percent of the American people. In order to do that, we greatly increase the deficit, we would incur borrowing from other countries including China, and to top it all off, in order to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in our country, we have to increase taxes for the middle class in order to pay for it. If you make over a million dollars a year the Republican tax proposal will give you a tax cut of $160,000 on average. And on average America’s middle-income families would have to pay $1,000 more in taxes..."

August 01, 2012

Pelosi Remarks at Closing Session of XIX International AIDS Conference

“To make far-reaching progress and ‘turn the tide,’ action was needed and required from parliaments worldwide. On behalf of Members of Congress I want to welcome the many parliamentarians who were with us at this conference. Thank you for joining us because for our countries to be able to act, our legislative bodies must make a decision to move forward. And many have. Even in these difficult fiscal times, cutting back on our HIV/AIDS investments is a false economy that costs us more in the future in lives and in resources. HIV/AIDS is still adapting and so must we – to turn the tide together."

Pelosi Floor Speech in Support of Resolution on Aurora Tragedy

“In the words of this resolution, the Congress: ‘honors the resilience of the community of the City of Aurora and the State of Colorado in the face of such adversity.’ May you feel the support, love, and prayers of our nation. May those tragically taken from us be honored and remembered. May time heal our grief."

Pelosi Speech at amfAR Awards Dinner

“We answered the call locally, nationally, and globally. Our international mobilization against AIDS led us to create the Global Fund, work with President George W. Bush to establish PEPFAR, and partner with President Obama to strengthen these efforts. With sustained American leadership and shared responsibility from the international community, millions of lives in the poorest countries have been saved and we are building toward the day when we completely eliminate new HIV infections among children. Here at home, the Affordable Care Act has meant remarkable benefits for people living with HIV/AIDS..."

Pelosi Floor Speech in Recognition of the Return of the International AIDS Conference to the United States

“These commitments and more help families in the United States, in the villages of Africa, in communities worldwide. These actions have saved lives but there’s much more to do. And with the International AIDS Conference coming to Washington, D.C. we have an opportunity to recommit ourselves to a cause for a world without HIV/AIDS. That is the challenge, that is the goal. We can turn the tide together. In 25 years in Congress, little surprises me anymore but one thing that does is that after all this time we still do not have the cure, but we’re hopeful. But we’re hopeful. And with the AIDS Conference, when it opens its doors next week, we must stand united in our pledge to discover a cure and raise up an AIDS free generation. Science is making progress, we have a moral obligation to support that..."

Pelosi Floor Speech in Opposition to House GOP Vote to Take Away Health Care Protections for Millions of Americans

“My Republican colleagues are taking away patient protections for millions of Americans – protections you as a Member of Congress already enjoy. That’s a betrayal of fundamental fairness. I think that that’s an undermining of fundamental fairness. If you repeal this bill, which means you keep your federal health insurance benefits while you take these patient protections away from the American people. What a valentine to the health insurance industry..."

Pelosi Floor Speech in Opposition to House Republican Contempt Vote

“It may just be a coincidence, I don’t know, that the Attorney General of the United States, the chief legal officer of our country, has a responsibility to fight voter suppression, which is going on in our country; that he has refused to defend the constitutionality of DOMA, because he doesn’t believe it’s constitutional; that has major disagreements on immigration, which falls under enforcement of immigration law. It may just be a coincidence that those are part of his responsibilities. Or maybe it isn’t... Just when you think you have seen it all. Just when you think they couldn’t possibly go any further over the edge, they come up with something like this. It’s stunning. It really is. And I don’t mean that in meaning it’s beautiful. It’s stunning, it stops you in your track because you say: ‘how far will they go? Have they no limits?’ Apparently not."

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