Ryan calls Pelosi's eight-hour speech 'impressive'
Source: The Hill
BY MAX GREENWOOD - 02/08/18 12:19 PM EST
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) complimented House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) stamina on Thursday, one day after she spoke for more than eight hours on the floor, setting a House record.
"My hat's off to her. I don't know that I could have hacked that for eight hours, so it was pretty darn impressive," Ryan told reporters at a press briefing.
"I would have gone to the bathroom well before then, I gotta tell you," he joked.
The Speaker's comments came after Pelosi delivered a marathon speech on Wednesday calling on the chamber to take up legislation extending legal protections for young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as "Dreamers."
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rurallib
(62,465 posts)and maybe Nancy could be Speaker of the House again.
And she would do the job right!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,126 posts)does that he will gladly leave Washington for good.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Gothmog
(145,666 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)Im pretty sure your boss was less than thrilled with, hopefully, the future House Speakers speech.
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)He/Rs haven't been anything other than guns blazing partisan douchebags for so long, why his conciliatory tone?
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)You get the sense that things are changing.
harun
(11,348 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)I get the sense that there's a slow but seismic shift happening in how things have to get done. Combine that with the amount of retirements and the budget deal that's being pushed you get the feeling that they're plotting their survival over the next few years.
They are scared shitless.
gademocrat7
(10,676 posts)turbinetree
(24,726 posts)here' a solution to remove a condescending asshole:
https://www.randybryceforcongress.com/
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough