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speaker.gov - 3/19/2009
Speaker Nancy Pelosi | News Room | Press Releases
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Pelosi Statement on AIG Legislation on House Floor Tomorrow Washington, D.C. Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement tonight on legislation the House will vote on tomorrow to hold companies, including American International Group (AIG), accountable for the bonuses that were paid to ...
powerlineblog.com - 3/21/2009
Are We A Banana Republic?
— powerlineblog.com — I'm stupefied to find that some people are defending the constitutionality of Nancy Pelosi's discriminatory, confiscatory and... retroactive tax on people who receive bonus income from companies that got TARP money. I would have considered it a bright ... (more) Are We A Banana Republic?

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thehill.com - 3/14/2009
Speaker Pelosi: I am not partisan
— thehill.com — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is denying Republican claims that she is partisan, saying she has been... open to GOP ideas. In an interview with Charlie Rose on Friday, Pelosi was asked what is the most unfair and misleading impression of her. ... (more) Speaker Pelosi: I am not partisan

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foxnews.com - 3/18/2009
Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are Un-American - Presidential Politics | ...
— foxnews.com — EXCLUSIVE : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and... their families that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is "un-American." The speaker, condemning raids by Immigration ... (more) Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are ...

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Daily Kos:  TARP Tax? Rangel: No! No! No! OK!

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  Dems to offer legislation protecting big chunk of TARP bonuses

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TARP Tax? Rangel: No! No! No! OK!
Daily Kos — ... Today, we'll be seeing H.R. 1586 on the floor -- a 90% tax on bonuses paid by companies receiving more than $5 billion in TARP funds and whose family incomes already exceed $250,000 -- and authored by... Charlie Rangel. ...

Dems to offer legislation protecting big chunk of TARP bonuses
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... , telling other House members not to dare try to tax AIG's exorbitant bonuses, now has legislation to "fix" the problem, and Speaker Pelosi appears to have endorsed it. I'll let Speaker Pelosi explain the details of the legislation, lest my head explode: ...

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