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Source: Washington Post
President Obama predicted Thursday that if Democrats pursue an ambitious agenda, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will soon have the speakers gavel back.
It wont be smooth, it wont be simple, there will be frustrations, there will be times when you guys will be mad at me, and Ill occasionally read about it. he said. But if they keep focused, he said, I would expect that Nancy Pelosi is going to be speaker again pretty soon.
But the president also appeared to be steeling House Democrats who are more liberal than their Senate counterparts for the need to remain open to concessions to moderate Democrats and Republicans not as eager to engage on the two domestic issues likely to dominate his State of the Union address next week immigration and gun-control.
Obama spoke at a midday session at the annual House Democratic policy retreat, held at the tony Lansdowne Resort outside Leesburg. He addressed the group from his presidential podium in a large ballroom as lawmakers sat at round tables in casual dress.
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