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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Friday that she was briefed only once about the "enhanced" interrogation techniques being used on terrorism suspects and that she was assured by lawyers with the CIA and the Department of Justice that the methods were legal.
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Pelosi [had to manage] intransigent House Republicans, reluctant Blue Dogs, liberals demanding nothing less than a single-payer system, skittish White House advisers and Senate Democrats willing to waste months in quixotic pursuit of bipartisan cover. … [She had to persuade progressives] that the "public option" hybrid of single-payer and privately managed health care plans was now dead on arrival in the Senate. Then she persuaded Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan, an anti-abortion Democrat, to drop his demand that the health care bill prohibit federal funds being used on abortion. When a host of other backstage deals with Blue Dogs — like reckoning with disparities among states in Medicare reimbursements — failed, Pelosi managed the fallout. Obamacare passed in the House by three votes. "I'd remind people: We would not have health care today were it not for Nancy Pelosi," [Former Wisconsin Congressman David] Obey said. "There were all kinds of people, both in our caucus and in the White House, who were willing to settle for one-tenth of a loaf. And she said, 'To hell with that. We were sent here to do more.' "
... As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats—in her fondest wish—win control in the November 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.
In fairness, the environment was different then because we were closer to Sept. 11 and people were still in a panic," said one U.S. official present during the early briefings. "But there was no objecting, no hand-wringing. The attitude was, 'We don't care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.'
... As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats—in her fondest wish—win control in the November 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Friday that she was briefed only once about the "enhanced" interrogation techniques being used on terrorism suspects and that she was assured by lawyers with the CIA and the Department of Justice that the methods were legal.
In fairness, the environment was different then because we were closer to Sept. 11 and people were still in a panic," said one U.S. official present during the early briefings. "But there was no objecting, no hand-wringing. The attitude was, 'We don't care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.'
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