Today is a great & historic day for America. With the #EqualityAct passing in the House, we're closer to living up to our professed values as a nation.
Speaker Pelosi said it all here: "This is not about tolerance. This is about respect. This is about taking pride." #LGBTQ🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
He protected our Constitution as a House Manager; it must be made clear that it protects him as well.
In debates in the House before voting, Republicans appealed to ugly, hateful attacks on the #LGBTQ community — with particular venom reserved for transgender people.
@SenSchumer didn't mince his words in denouncing their hateful GOP agenda nor in describing his personal stake.
Powerful testimony from @RepMarkTakano, as he recounted the journey to being on the cusp of #EqualityForAll and pointed out how despicable it is that Republicans are scapegoating the most vulnerable members of the #LGBTQ community.
.@SenatorBaldwin also denounced the attacks on the #LGBTQ community by House Republicans & highlighted the importance of visibility and public pride from LGBTQ people & allies.
She has been that light for countless others in her own out & proud journey & fight for #Equality4All.
@RepJerryNadler, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and #LGBTQ rights warrior, highlighted a key difference in the confirmation of constitutional rights that the #EqualityAct would represent as an affirmation of rights rather than fending off attack.
.@SenBooker brilliantly closed the circle on why the #EqualityAct is on a continuum with and part of our Civil Rights journey as a nation and why it must become a pillar of our values and a true reflection of who we say we are. #LGBTQ#Equality4All
They "can be married in the morning, rejected from a restaurant at lunch, denied a mortgage or dismissed from a jury in the afternoon, & evicted from their house that night."
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Today was a disaster for Trump as the Supreme Ct. gave him a huge loss on his tax returns & financial records. Setting the stage for us to find out why #AllRoadsLeadToPutin with him.
Speaker Pelosi's reaction, below! But first, a word for our "ill-informed" Sec. of Education.🔥
SCOTUS handed Trump one of his worst days ever – rejecting his ridiculous stance that he's basically a king.
Both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined the 7-2 decision preserving our #ChecksAndBalances and affirming what Madam Speaker has always said: #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw.
The Supreme Court gave Congress (and NY prosecutors) a path to get Trump's records. Madam Speaker made it crystal clear that the House intends to pursue that path.
Unlike Senate GOP, House Dems take their oversight responsibility seriously. #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
Speaker Pelosi took a blowtorch to the ridiculous assertion by the Trump WH that Trump wasn't briefed orally about Russia putting a hit on our troops in Afghanistan because our intelligence agencies didn't have 100% confirmation.
Nearly a week since we learned that Russia put a bounty on the head of our troops in Afghanistan, Trump still has had nothing to say to Putin about the spilled American blood on his hands.
So on top of everything else, Trump is also a failed Commander-in-Chief.
With 25 years of experience in intelligence, Speaker Pelosi knows exactly how this kind of actionable information usually comes across when there is a President and Commander-in-Chief who is not invested in letting Putin get away with murder.
As concern grew about whether the administration was prioritizing evidence-based policy and transparency with the public, the House came together w/ the Speaker's incredible leadership to pass a bipartisan bill that brings order and resources to this difficult task. #coronavirus
With challenges of this scope, taking care of immediate needs is only the beginning.
Mindful of any collateral impact on many aspects of life #ForThePeople, Speaker Pelosi put issues of health worker safety, unemployment insurance & business losses on the WH radar. #coronavirus
Trump is trumping, again, and it's still all hands on-deck to #DefendOurDemocracy.
Meanwhile, @SpeakerPelosi is leading a bicameral delegation at the Munich Security Conference where her words on the state of democracy in the US and abroad resonated with new urgency. #MSC2020
@SpeakerPelosi Nodding to our rich history of welcoming newcomers who bring their clear-eyed optimism & hard-won wisdom to our American life, Madam Speaker's words brought hope that we may yet be uniquely resilient to authoritarian forces threatening the world's democracies now. #CA12#MSC2020
@SpeakerPelosi Mindful that meaningful alliances are strengthened by moments of agreement and principled candor relying on a reserve of trust built over time, Speaker Pelosi minced no words in conveying America's disapproval of Huawei's (and China's) position of leverage re 5G. #CA12#MSC2020
The ink wasn’t even dry on Trump’s #GOPTaxScam for the 1% when #GrimReaper Mitch set his sights on the social safety net seniors & struggling families depend on – to make up for the deficit *he* caused.
A glaring example of this administration's reckless anti-science idiocy–
As the int’l community is all hands on deck to stop & eradicate the deadly #ConoraVirus, the very stable genius in the WH announced a plan to CUT✂️ our world-leading CDC’s budget in 1/2. #TrumpBudget FAIL.
Aimed at America's seniors, those who rely on disability benefits, and vulnerable families and kids, the cuts the #TrumpBudget would impose on #Medicare, #Medicaid, and #SocialSecurity are a cruel betrayal of promises he made **less than a week ago** at the #SOTU.