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Why are the Democrats protecting billions of dollars for big farm subsidies when that sector of the economy is booming and not using the farm bill to as an opportunity for reform?

Asked 26 weeks 4 days ago of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
by Alice Bartholomew from Fairfax, CA

Answered

What are you willing to do to make sure that the remainder of the 110th Congress is productive considering it is an election year? What will your legislative priorities be?
Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 16 Votes.
Categories: Campaign 2008. Tags: 110th Congress · election year · Elections · legislation · priorities.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Democrats have returned for this second session of this Congress reinvigorated and ready to tackle the problems challenging our country. We come back to this new direction Congress focusing on the economy. It has been clear for the past few weeks that all sectors of the economic world, all shades of opinion in the economic world are saying to us that a stimulus is needed to avoid a downturn or to worsen the situation.

Answered on Jan 16th, 2008 More
More than 21 million toys made in China have been recalled this year. Should the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission resign?
Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 33 Votes.
Categories: Foreign Policy · Globalization · Money & Politics. Tags: china · consumers · lead · product safety · toys.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

“I came from the kitchen to the Congress. I came as a Mom wanting to make sure that public policy did whatever it could do that parents couldn’t do to protect its children and the trust that parents across the country would like to have in the federal government is completely unjustified when we see how lax the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been with its acting chairperson saying we don’t need any more resources and we don’t need any more authority.”

Answered on Dec 6th, 2007 More
Would you work with the White House to find a compromise on funding Children’s Health Insurance?
Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 2 Votes.
Categories: Health · President Bush. Tags: children · SCHIP · uninsured.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

“Well, I haven’t had any overture from the White House on what they might consider an appropriate next step. What I do know is that in the House we compromised from a $90 billion dollar bill to a $35 billion dollar bill in order to have bipartisanship and to have it pass the United States Senate.”

Answered on Nov 6th, 2007 More