Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement in response to the announcement today by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk that the United States will initiate a Section 301 investigation on the policies...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after the House passed H.R. 4785, the Rural Energy Savings Program Act. The bill passed by a vote of 240 to 172. This legislation...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks at the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Awards Ceremony this morning at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. The X PRIZE is awarded to the first team to...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Ottawa – Below is a statement from Drew Hammill, spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on energy security discussions that have taken place during the visit to Canada for the G8 Speaker’s Conference:“The Speaker has stated...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Ottawa – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement following a meeting with Canadian cabinet ministers and provincial leaders hosted by U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson. The Speaker is in Canada for the annual G8 Speaker’s Conference,...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi will travel to Ottawa, Canada this week for a meeting of the G8 Speakers’ Conference, which starts on Thursday, September 9 and released the following statement today on the...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Below is a statement from Drew Hammill, spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on the renewable energy and transmission loan-guarantee program. $1.5 billion from this fund was used by the Senate to pay...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in support of two pieces of legislation in response to the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The two...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the House introduction of the oil spill response package, which will be considered on the floor later this week. The package includes: the...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the House passed two bills in response to the disastrous BP oil spill. The first – H.R. 2693, the Oil Pollution Research and...
We must press for legislation that invests in clean, renewable energy and efficient technologies, reduces transit fares, helps Americans struggling with energy prices, rewards conservation, cracks down on oil speculators and on price gouging, forces Big Oil to ‘use it or lose it’ on federal drilling permits, and transitions American to a new more affordable energy future.
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement following passage of H.R. 5503, the SPILL Act (“Securing Protections for the Injured from Limitations on Liability Act”), a bill to ensure just compensation for...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on President Obama’s announcement of a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for the federal government: "The effort to build a future founded on sustainability,...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today announcing the inclusion of an additional $92 million for cleanup at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in fiscal year 2010. The fiscal year 2010 Military...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616 Copenhagen - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on President Obama's speech to United Nations Climate Conference. Speaker Pelosi is currently leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation to the Conference. "Today, President Obama put...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Copenhagen - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement tonight on the United Nations Climate Conference. Speaker Pelosi is currently leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation to Copenhagen. "The agreement reached tonight in Copenhagen is a...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Copenhagen - Speaker Nancy Pelosi participated in a roundtable with other women leaders this morning in Copenhagen to discuss solutions for climate change hosted by the Global Gender and Climate Alliance. Below are the Speaker's...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Copenhagen - Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, and Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Edward Markey held a press briefing at the Bella...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a Congressional Delegation to Copenhagen, Denmark for the UN Climate Conference. "The House of Representatives has taken historic action to address the climate crisis and transition our...
Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the EPA's announcement today that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment: "The EPA has thoroughly reviewed the scientific literature on climate change,...