by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2013 | Health Care
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that health insurance premiums will go up under Obamacare because people who did not buy insurance before, and thus had no premium at all, will now be forced to buy insurance. She also urged people...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Pushing back against the Republicans’ deficit-reduction strategy, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this weekend that more tax revenues – not just spending cuts – must be a part of Congress’s effort to rein in deficits. Pelosi said the tax...
by Jane Richey | Jun 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday defended the health care reform law, tying it to the promises written in the Declaration of Independence. The Affordable Care Act is “about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the American people,” Pelosi...
by Jane Richey | May 21, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The House-passed line-item veto bill, which has been endorsed by the White House, is on life support in the Democratic-controlled Senate. More than four months after the House approved the measure, co-sponsored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and...
by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Obamacare facilitates the type of “liberation” that the “Founders had in mind” because it allows you to quit your job and become a “photographer,” a “writer,” a “musician”–or “whatever.” “As you...