Days after tensions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boiled over publicly, several House Democrats sent a message to Washington: We're not backing down.
Days after tensions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boiled over publicly, several House Democrats sent a message to Washington: We're not backing down.
Omar added:"We are not really in the business of asking for the share of that power. We're in the business of trying to grab that power and return it to the people." Infighting between liberal and centrist House Democrats was highlighted last week by Pelosi's seemingly dismissive words aimed at the freshman women. Pelosi told The New York Times that"they're four people, and that's how many votes they got," a remark that brought criticism that Pelosi was marginalizing women of color.
Pressley quoted the late Rep. Shirley Chisholm's feminist mantra in saying that rather than bringing her own chair to the proverbial table,"this is the time to shake the table, this is the time to redefine that table." Chisholm was a pioneering African American who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.
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