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Nancy Pelosi: Commemorating 25 Years in Congress

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Commonwealth Club of California

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: Fairmont Hotel
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 05.29.12
Speakers:: Gloria Duffy,; Representative Nancy Pelosi
Tags:: commonwealth club; nancy pelosi; congress; government; healthcare

Summary: U.S. House Democratic leader Pelosi will headline a special Commonwealth Club conversation commemorating her 25 years of representing San Francisco in Congress, in which she will reflect on her rise to become the first woman speaker of the House and her continued efforts to represent the American people."

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Gloria Duffy

Gloria Duffy is President and CEO of The Commonwealth Club of California.

Gloria Duffy previously served as US Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Her mission was to convince the countries of the former Soviet Union to give up their weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent the spread of their nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and material.

In years prior, she was the first Executive Director of Ploughshares Fund, a public charitable grant making foundation in San Francisco; Assistant Director of the Arms Control Association, a public interest group in Washington, DC; editor of Arms Control Today, and a resident consultant at the RAND Corporation.

A San Francisco native, Dr. Duffy holds M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Columbia University in New York, and an A.B. magna cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Gloria has also worked with the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, and been a member of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation since 1980.

Representative Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the first woman Speaker of the House and was also the first woman to lead a major political party in Congress, having served as House Democratic Leader from 2003 to 2007. Leader Pelosi has represented San Francisco, California, in the House since June 1987.

During the 111th Congress, then-Speaker Pelosi worked in partnership with President Obama to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. She also led the House effort to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the historic healthcare reform legislation aimed at providing insurance for 32 million more Americans while lowering healthcare costs over the long term. Other recent legislative achievements have included passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to improve the ability of women to fight pay discrimination and repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

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01.: Introduction

05 min 35 sec

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02.: Nancy Pelosi's Opening Remarks on the Commonwealth Club

03 min 16 sec

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03.: The Beginnings of Nancy Pelosi's Political Career in Congress

07 min 48 sec

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04.: Motivations of Pelosi's Politics

05 min 18 sec

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05.: Thoughts on the Healthcare Impasse

06 min 17 sec

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06.: Opinion of President Obama's Recent Support of Gay Marriage

02 min 41 sec

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07.: Reaction if Supreme Court Throws Out the Healthcare Law

05 min 18 sec

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08.: The Importance of Science and Women's Leadership

08 min 05 sec

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09.: Role of Congress in Social Issues

01 min 23 sec

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10.: The Paycheck Fairness Act

04 min 08 sec

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11.: Funding for Higher Education and Finding Congressional Support

07 min 33 sec

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12.: Bridging the Divide in Congress

07 min 04 sec

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13.: Liklihood of Taking Back the House

02 min 31 sec

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Nancy Pelosi: GOP Doesn’t Believe in a Federal Government

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Nancy Pelosi, Majority Speaker for the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, discusses political gridlock in Congress. Pelosi argues that Republicans aren't "obstructionists" for the sake of stalling President Obama, but rather because they "don't believe in government" out of principle.
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