Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Nancy Pelosi [D, CA-8]

Stock Act Confusion

2012-02-08T17:28:37Z

The House version takes aim at House minority leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) by banning lawmakers from using their positions to gain special access to initial public offerings of stock. Pelosi denies these claims. The GOP plan ignores an ...

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U.S. Republicans introduce version of bill to ban insider trading

2012-02-08T10:04:48Z

Part of the bill introduced late Tuesday takes direct aim at House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi by proposing to ban lawmakers ... That was especially galling to Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., who has been trying to get an insider trading bill passed ...

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House GOP introduces its insider trading bill

2012-02-08T09:29:00Z

In a provision aimed directly at Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, the bill, introduced late Tuesday ... That was especially galling to Rep. Louise Slaughter, New York Democrat, who has been trying to get an insider trading bill passed for ...

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Look who's sweetening Rep. Keating's pie

2012-02-08T03:23:56Z

Your Feb. 3 article about Rep. Keating's 2011 campaign fundraising piqued my ... and the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative PAC ($1,000). Nancy Pelosi for Congress also chipped in $4,000. I challenge readers to ask around and see if ...

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Americans Now Prefer Random Assortment Of Strangers, Rather Than Congress, To Run Country

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...jemiltd: Hmmm, not a bad idea. I want to limit House You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Nancy Pelosi will go down as a very effective Speaker of the House who passed legislation with a (majority of the House voting

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Look who's sweetening Rep. Keating's pie

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...($1,000), Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative PAC ($500) and the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative PAC ($1,000). Nancy Pelosi for Congress also chipped in $4,000. I challenge readers to ask around and see if they know anyone on Cape Cod who is a Shee

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House GOP unveils insider trading ban bill

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...special access to initial public offerings due to their positions. That provision was aimed directly at Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, whose husband participated in a Visa IPO around the same time Congress was considering a bill on credit card fees. Pe

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Peter Schweizer: Dump STOCK, go with RESTRICT Act to clean up DC

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...abysmally low standard.” Several leaders in Congress have repeatedly sought earmarks that benefit their personal investments. Nancy Pelosi pushed for a $20 million earmark in 2005 “for waterfront redevelopment only two blocks away from the Belden St

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House GOP Moves to Add ‘Pelosi Provision’ to Bill Banning Insider Trading

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...members of Congress from landing coveted and lucrative initial public offerings (IPOs), similar to the Visa stock IPO Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi scored that made them a staggering 203% profit. The Pelosi Visa IPO revelation made headl

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Washington Post: Breitbart Editor’s Book Uncovered Nancy Pelosi’s $50 Million Self-Enriching Earmarks

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...process of slipping pet spending projects into bills–for all 535 members of Congress and has concluded that Rep. Nancy Pelosi added $50 million in earmarks for a light-rail project that runs near a four-story commercial building she and her husband ow

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Reaction to the ruling on Calif's gay marriage ban

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...state legislatures and in the courts, and work in Congress to repeal and overturn the so-called Defense of Marriage Act." Rep. Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif. _ "Today's decision is important to that young me that never dreamt that I would wake up in a country

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Dr. Peters (canonist) on Nancy Pelosi (public abortion absolutist)

2012-02-08T01:00:00Z

...mighty Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, has posted on his excellent blog In The Light Of The Law a comment about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) statement that, as a Catholic, she will stand with the Obama Administration against the Catholic Church. As

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Washington Post Points Fingers At Earmarkers

2012-02-08T00:32:08Z

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) 2001-11, $50 million for a light-rail project for direct access to Union Square and Chinatown in San Francisco. Her husband owns a commercial building near Union Square. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-West Virginia) 2005, $20 million

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Ban on Insider Trading Faces G.O.P. Revisions

2012-02-07T22:44:46Z

Republicans call this “the Pelosi provision” because, they say, it was inspired by an investment in 2008 by Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who was then the speaker and is now the House Democratic leader. An aide to Ms. Pelosi ...

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US House insider trading bill takes dig at Pelosi

2012-02-07T19:10:01Z

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will take an election-year dig at top Democrat Nancy Pelosi in changes added ... meant to ban insider trading," said Congressman Tim Walz, a Minnesota Democrat ...

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House insider trading bill takes dig at Pelosi

2012-02-07T19:10:01Z

Republicans in the House of Representatives will take an election-year dig at top Democrat Nancy Pelosi in changes added to a fast ... to be writing a bill meant to ban insider trading," said Congressman Tim Walz, a Minnesota Democrat who had reintroduced

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Politico: Is Nancy Pelosi A 2012 Asset, or Not?

2012-02-07T16:11:03Z

The latest to leave is Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), who got a country butt ... “What I think is really lost here is a lot of the retirements were preordained the minute Nancy Pelosi decided to run again for speaker,” one retiring centrist ...

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Washington Post report finds that members of Congress steer earmarks close to home

2012-02-07T15:42:25Z

Nancy Pelosi is among 33 lawmakers who have funneled spending ... federal earmarks to renovate downtown Tuscaloosa near his own commercial office building. A congressman from Georgia also secured $6.3 million in taxpayer funds to improve a beach just ...

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California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional, Court Says

2012-02-07T14:09:22Z

Update at 1:35 p.m. ET. Pelosi Reacts: Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the top Democrat in the House, says on her Twitter page that Prop 8 was ruled to be "what we knew it to be: unconstitutional. Victory for equality & CA families!" Update at 1:25 ...

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Reaction to the ruling on Calif's gay marriage ban

2012-02-07T01:00:00Z

...legislatures and in the courts, and work in Congress to repeal and overturn the so-called Defense of Marriage Act." Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. - "Today's decision is important to that young me that never dreamt that I would wake up in a country where I

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