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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 01:27 PM Feb 2018

Ryan calls Pelosi's eight-hour speech 'impressive'

Source: The Hill




BY MAX GREENWOOD - 02/08/18 12:19 PM EST




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."

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/372939-ryan-calls-pelosi-speech-impressive
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Ryan calls Pelosi's eight-hour speech 'impressive' (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
Vote for the Iron 'Stache this November, Paul rurallib Feb 2018 #1
All Paul wants is to take all of our benefits we have paid for our entire lives, once he Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #2
You will make a fine lobyist sir. Maybe start now by resigning. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2018 #3
Nancy Pelosi's speech was indeed impressive Gothmog Feb 2018 #4
Watch out, Speaker Ryan! GWC58 Feb 2018 #5
I caught a bit of this - why is he being magnanimous? Cosmocat Feb 2018 #6
Something's afoot under the radar Blue_Adept Feb 2018 #7
Midterms are coming and they know the poll numbers. harun Feb 2018 #8
That's partially it Blue_Adept Feb 2018 #10
Yup. CTyankee Feb 2018 #11
Nancy was amazing. gademocrat7 Feb 2018 #9
What a fucking condescending asshole Paul "ayn rand" Ryan turbinetree Feb 2018 #12

rurallib

(62,465 posts)
1. Vote for the Iron 'Stache this November, Paul
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 01:34 PM
Feb 2018

and maybe Nancy could be Speaker of the House again.

And she would do the job right!

Eliot Rosewater

(31,126 posts)
2. All Paul wants is to take all of our benefits we have paid for our entire lives, once he
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 01:42 PM
Feb 2018

does that he will gladly leave Washington for good.

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
5. Watch out, Speaker Ryan!
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 01:52 PM
Feb 2018

I’m pretty sure your boss was less than thrilled with, hopefully, the future House Speakers speech.

Cosmocat

(14,575 posts)
6. I caught a bit of this - why is he being magnanimous?
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:00 PM
Feb 2018

He/Rs haven't been anything other than guns blazing partisan douchebags for so long, why his conciliatory tone?

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)
10. That's partially it
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:42 PM
Feb 2018

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.

turbinetree

(24,726 posts)
12. What a fucking condescending asshole Paul "ayn rand" Ryan
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:09 PM
Feb 2018

here' a solution to remove a condescending asshole:

https://www.randybryceforcongress.com/


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough



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