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WASHINGTON D.C., June 14 .- Prominent Catholics and members of the pro-life movement denounced statements by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi that as a Catholic, she views the protection of late-term abortion as "sacred ground."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she is "not likely" to support the new Farm Bill and warned Republicans that the burden is on them to come up with the votes after insisting on major cuts from food stamps.

The face of the Democratic opposition to a bill that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks will be California Rep. Zoe Lofgren.

Two years ago, a spat between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over Planned Parenthood funding sparked a national debate about birth control that helped lead to a historic gender gap in the 2012 elections, with Obama beating Mitt Romney by about 10 points among women voters.

A Syrian soldier, who has defected to join the Free Syrian Army, holds up his rifle and waves a Syrian independence flag in the Damascus suburb of Saqba January 27, 2012.

Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who is up for reelection next year, likened himself to the Republicans of yesteryear rather than accept an association with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

On Sept. 18, 2008, with the nation on the precipice of a financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to gather a bipartisan group of lawmakers that very day.

The country's top chief executives are carefully nudging the House to get moving on a broad effort to rewrite U.S. immigration laws.

Eric Cantor and Nancy Pelosi are once again the two wealthiest members of the House leadership, according to just released financial disclosure reports for all members.

David Nakamura and Sandhya Somashekhar report on conservative efforts to deny various taxpayer-financed health benefits to unauthorize immigrants.

President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration's collection of Americans' phone records and Internet activities.

Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support - or sabotage - the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn.

MARCH 28: On the week of the one-year anniversary of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi toured a brand new medical and dental facility in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.

President Obama told a Democratic fund raising event in April that he wants Nancy Pelosi back as Speaker of the House and vowed to do everything in his power to make that happen in the 2014 congressional election.

Critics have called the bill the "London Whale Protection Act," a reference to the J.P. Morgan trader who lost his firm $6.2 billion last year.

From right, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., actor and political activist Lynda Carter, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, join singer Mary Wilson, far left, and dance to The Supremes song "Stop in the Name of Love," during a celebration of the career of veteran congressman John Dingell, in Washington, Thursday, ... (more)

Vice President Joe Biden made a campaign-style appearance in Silicon Valley on Saturday with U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, dropping by a local Hobee's restaurant to work the crowd on behalf of the veteran Democratic congressman, who is facing an unusually strong primary election challenge next year.

President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration's collection of Americans' phone records and Internet activities.

A state panel restored the license of the doctor who is medical director of a group of abortion clinics accused by state regulators of putting womenA s health at risk, while the licenses of two other physicians who worked at the clinics remain suspended.

At a recent Thursday-morning press conference, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was asked to explain the moral difference between the 20-week-old babies whom Dr. Kermit Gosnell killed in his Philadelphia clinic and the unborn children that legislation sponsored by Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks would help protect.