September 26, 2007
Hotline After Dark -- The Speaker Has The Floor
Still a lot of TV talk last night on Iranian Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in the "Situation Room":
On Iraq: "We changed the debate on the war. We put a bill on the president's desk which said that we wanted the redeployment of troops out of Iraq to begin in a timely fashion and to end within a year. The president vetoed that bill. He got quite a response to that veto and the Republicans in the Senate then decided that he was never going to get a bill on his desk again. So we have a barrier. And it's important for the American people to know that while I can bring a bill to the floor in the House, it cannot be brought up in the Senate unless there is a 60 vote."
Asked if they can't limit funding: "I wish the speaker had all the power you just described. I certainly could do that. That doesn't bar the minority from bringing up a funding resolution. They have their parliamentary prerogatives, as well."
On the Dem base being angry about Iraq: "I'm frustrated myself" (CNN, 9/25). [EMILY GOODIN]
Posted at 08:46 AM
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