Pelosi tells Bush to ‘calm down threats’

[Rose Siding]

Source: The Hill

Heading toward a potential confrontation over how to pay for the war in Iraq and whether to end U.S. involvement by a certain date, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told President Bush yesterday to “calm down with the threats,” and twice urged him to “take a deep breath.”

.....“Calm down with the threats …There is a new Congress in town …We respect your constitutional role, we want you to respect ours.”

Lawmakers from both parties were thinking about a post-vetoed spending bill political strategy and wondering how a “Pentagon shutdown” would play out politically.
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Meanwhile, Pelosi and Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that they would create a National Security Advisory Group to study the U.S. national security since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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