Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an "unworthy partner" who does not deserve a big boost either in U.S. troops or civilian aid, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to prevent Wall Street jobs and related business moving overseas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she believes a health-care bill will pass, despite fierce debate over language about abortion. She tells Renee Montagne that when it comes to Afghanistan, she doesn't sense wide support among House members for a significant troop increase. Pelosi says she's asked members to give President Obama room to decide his Afghan strategy.

Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to keep Wall Street jobs and related business from moving overseas, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that any new economic pump-priming legislation would seek to maximize job creation while limiting deficit expansion that puts "a weight" on US growth.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that congressional efforts to end the US ban on travel to Cuba would take a back seat to overhauling US health care and fostering job creation.

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 — Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to keep Wall Street jobs and related business from moving overseas, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday. “It would have to be an international rule, not just a US rule,” Pelosi said at a news conference. “We couldn’t do it alone, we’d have to do it as an ...

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has said that the United States should not impose a "Tobin tax" on financial transactions in isolation because such a move could damage the competitiveness of the nation's banking and financial services industry.

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A tax on large stock trades pushed by some Democrats could be imposed in the U.S. only if it is also levied internationally to prevent Wall Street traders from taking their business offshore, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, in a Saturday press conference at University Medical Center at Princeton, urged support for the health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives' Democratic majority.