Nancy Pelosi Quotes
This place is a mess!
The 113th Congress was the worst Congress in history having passed under 70 bills when ten times that number is considered modest production.
Nancy Pelosi, U. S. Congresswoman (Democrat, CA), Speaker of the House, Address to the House of Representatives in the midst of its dysfunctional gridlock, 2013
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He was reprimanded by the higher Federal Appellate Court for his overt racism and unjudicial behavior. Federal judges are appointed for life so Cox was still on the bench 4 years later when he presided over the murder trial of 3 civil rights workers. Cox, continuing his racist pattern sentenced convicted 1st and 2nd degree murderers but were only tied for civil rights violations and given the light sentence of only a few years in prison and not the maximum sentence. See {637613}.
Standing on the deck of the Exxon Valdez watching the oil leak out:
Lyon had spat in the face of Congressman Roger Griswald, 1762-1812 who had called Lyon a coward. Modern House rules prohibit personal attacks and remarks about fellow Congressmen.
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has served as a U.S. representative from California since 1987. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as speaker. She is second in the presidential line of succession, after vice president Kamala Harris. She is the dean of California's Congressional delegation.
