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12-16-2009, 01:43 PM #1
Pelosi to shield vulnerable members from controversial votes
Keep the pressure on, and we'll have to watch Schumer's and Graham's mass amnesty scheme closely -- so keep the pressure on the Senate too:
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The Hill
Speaker Pelosi to shield vulnerable members from controversial votes
By Jared Allen - 12/16/09 06:00 AM ET
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has privately told her politically vulnerable Democratic members that they will not vote on controversial bills in 2010 unless the Senate acts first.
After a year of bruising legislative victories that some political analysts believe have done more to jeopardize her majority than to entrench it, Pelosi is shifting gears for the 2010 election.
The Speaker recently assured her freshman lawmakers and other vulnerable members of her caucus that a vote on immigration reform is not looming despite a renewed push from the White House and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The House will not move on the issue until the upper chamber passes a bill, Pelosi told the members.
But according to Democrats who have spoken to Pelosi, the Speaker has expanded that promise beyond immigration, informing Democratic lawmakers that the Senate will have to move first on a host of controversial issues before she brings them to the House floor.
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