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.

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.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, which passed by a vote of 243 to 183, repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010, and replaces the physician payment formula with a more stable system.

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.

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives says that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an "unworthy partner."

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 ...