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...The legacy of Jim Crow still cast a shadow over Arkansas in the late 1950s, however, and the working conditions for black musicians in the South were difficult....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker, said the House would take up the measure as early as Wednesday before sending it to the Senate....
...These included the loser literally eating crow, or pushing the winner around in a wheelbarrow....
...It’s not that the party has given up with its flirtations of Great Liberal Heroes (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren)....
...Last week, 70 progressive Democratic lawmakers wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to outline their opposition the draft bill, urging her not to attach it to so-called “must pass” legislation....
...and Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary, have told top Democrats that the administration was considering fast-tracking a vaccine, according to one person briefed on a July 30 meeting the pair held with Nancy...
...The two top Democrats in Congress — Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer — expressed fury in a statement: “If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to...
...Sanders has encouraged House progressives to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless the reconciliation package is passed first....
...Sanders on Sunday told NBC that was “a good negotiating start”, adding: “It’s a big deal, and it’s not going to happen overnight.”...
...Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, said it was time to codify the protections of Roe vs Wade into law, while Mondaire Jones, a Democratic representative from the northern suburbs of New York City, said...
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...And so there's going to be a big burden on Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer during this period of time....
...But Bernie Sanders, the leftwing senator from Vermont, was fuming. “The pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $4.5bn on lobbying and campaign contributions over the past 20 years....
...Leftwing senator Bernie Sanders has urged his progressive colleagues in the House to vote “no” on the infrastructure package until the larger budget bill is passed....
...“We will be telling our children and grandchildren that we were here this day,” Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, said after Friday’s vote....
...Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, have blamed the media for the public’s lack of understanding for what the president is proposing....
...Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has suggested she will hold a vote on the infrastructure package as soon as Thursday, but Bush is one of a number of progressives who have said they are prepared...
...Had President Bernie Sanders overseen a national crime surge, it would have been pinned on the left’s innate laxity. Sponsorship of a severe crime bill in 1994 spares Biden that charge....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, spent the past four years referring to the US Senate as a “legislative graveyard”, where her party’s proposals on everything from gun control to policing...
...Before he delivered his address, Biden noted that he was the first president to give the speech flanked by two women — Kamala Harris, vice-president, and Nancy Pelosi, House speaker....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, laid out her plans in a letter to colleagues on Sunday....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, says she won’t pass the infrastructure bill in the lower chamber until the Senate has passed the full reconciliation bill....
...Nancy Lambert and Saba Joshaghani re-create the tone and look of the original to a tee....
...On the one hand, Mr Trump is loath to do any kind of deal with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, whom he has not met since the pandemic began....
...Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator due to chair the budget committee, called the plan “a very strong first instalment”....
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