Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, tells women to simply be themselves.

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"All politics is local, " Mary Hawkesworth said, quoting former speaker of the US House of Representatives Thomas "Tip" O'Neill.

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The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives has accused President Barack Obama of "a lack of clarity" and "lack of visibility and leadership" over the Nato mission in Libya.

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Given that Nancy Pelosi was never on the cover of a major news magazine despite having been Speaker of the House makes us question the media.

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And yet, the man with the plan to be speaker of the House, John Boehner, attacked us for closing corporate tax loopholes and using the money to keep hundreds of thousands of essential personnel on the jobs all across the states.

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The Speaker of the House sent us a proposal that was two pages long that included one sentence on revenue.

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Those hearings will tell us much about the degree to which the heavyweights of the Democratic Party - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senators John Kerry and Carl Levin - are fully behind the president in his attempt to rejuvenate the military effort in Afghanistan.

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