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In the following op-ed, appearing in the Rocky Mountain News, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi lays out what the country expects of Congressional leadership and the need for a New Direction.
In the following op-ed, appearing in the Chicago Tribune, Leader Pelosi warns against the GOP-led Congress’s penchant for “court-stripping,” taking discretionary powers away from the court.
“When adjusted for inflation, discretionary spending — or budget items that Congress and the president can control, including defense and domestic programs, but not entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare — shot up at an average annual rate of 5.3 percent during Bush’s first six years.”