The following are statements made by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi in response to a variety of issues about AIDS and the HIV community.
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- Pelosi: 'HIV/AIDS
Prevention Too Important to be Undermined by Politics; We Must Support What
Works'; May 1, 2003
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Rep. Pelosi and Gephardt:
Bush’s Proposal To Delay New Global AIDS Funding is Unacceptable; June
19, 2002
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Rep. Pelosi: Democrats Fight HIV/AIDS
Crisis; April 26, 2002
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Rep. Pelosi: Joint Statement
by Rep. Pelosi and Democratic Leader Rep. Gephardt on HIV/AIDS and the Bush
Budget; February 5, 2002
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Rep. Pelosi on
the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Conference Report;
December 19, 2001
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Rep. Pelosi Objects
to Administration Report on AIDS Prevention Programs in San Francisco;
December 13, 2001
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Rep. Pelosi in
Support Of H.R. 2069 - The Global Access To Hiv/Aids Prevention, Awareness,
Education And Treatment Act; December 11, 2001
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Rep. Pelosi on
World AIDS Day; November 29, 2001
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Rep. Pelosi "Is
the Money Drying Up or Does it Just Look that Way?" March
22, 2002
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Rep. Pelosi Objects to Administration
Report on AIDS Prevention Programs in San Francisco; December 13, 2001
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Rep. Pelosi in Support Of H.R.
2069 - The Global Access To Hiv/Aids Prevention, Awareness, Education And
Treatment Act; December 11, 2001
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Rep. Pelosi on World AIDS Day;
November 29, 2001
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Pelosi Passes Amendment for
Global AIDS Food Programs; July 11, 2001.
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Pelosi Speaks at a Hearing
on the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative; June 12, 2001.
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Rep. Pelosi Renewing Our Commitment
to the Fight Against HIV/AIDS After 2 Decades of Struggle; June 7, 2001.
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Rep. Pelosi Speaks Out in
Support of the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative; June 5, 2001.
- Rep. Pelosi Statement Marking Two Decades
of Struggle Against HIV/AIDS; June 5, 2001.
- Joint Statement by Democratic Leader Richard
Gephardt and Representative Nancy Pelosi Urging Expansion of Medicaid Coverage
for People with HIV; June 5, 2001.
- Pelosi Details How the Bush Plan Lacks
Resources to Effectively Fight the AIDS Crisis (Press Release); May 11,
2001.
- Pelosi Calls on the Administration and
Congress for Increased Funding for AIDS Programs at the AIDS Watch 10 Year
Rally (Press Release); May 8, 2001.
- Pelosi Introduces Legislation Accelerating
Vaccine Research to Fight Deadly Diseases; April 4, 2001.
- Pelosi on the Launch of a Grassroots Organization
to Respond to the Global Aids Crisis (Press Release); March 29, 2001.
- Rep. Pelosi Speaks Out on the Global Aids Pandemic;
March 20, 2001.
- Pelosi Testifies on the Need to Increase
HIV/AIDS Funding (Press Release); March 8, 2001.
- Congresswoman Pelosi Announces a $36
Million Dollar Grant for San Francisco HIV/AIDS Assistance: January 24,
2001.
- Congresswoman Pelosi Urges
Reauthorization of Ryan White Act Without Harmful Provisions for San Francisco
(Press Release); June 29, 2000
- On Global Aids and the World
Bank Aids Marshall Plan Trust Fund Act (Floor Speech); May 15, 2000.
- Statement on the Exclusion of HIV/AIDS
Provisions from the African Growth and Caribbean Initiative Act; May 4,
2000.
- Pelosi on Global HIV and AIDS and the World
Bank Aids Marshall Plan Trust Fund Act; May 2, 2000.
- Pelosi Statement Supporting the Shays/Nadler/Crowley/Morella
Amendment for Increased HOPWA Funding (Floor Speech); April 6, 2000.
- Pelosi and Senator John Kerry Introduce Legislation to Provide Incentives
for Research on Vaccines;
March 1, 2000
- Pelosi Statement at Senate Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing
on HIV Prevention
in San Francisco; February 14, 2000
- Pelosi Announces Two Federal Grants for
AIDS Programs in San Francisco ; September 8, 1999
- Pelosi On The HOPWA Program;
September 8, 1999
- Pelosi and 20 California Colleagues Call on Gov. Davis to Support Needle
Exchange Bill (AB 518); August 19, 1999
- On Needle Exchange in
Washington, D.C.; July 29, 1999
- Before Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee's Special Hearing on AIDS;
July 9, 1999
- Statement on the Health
of the American People; June 30, 1999
- Pelosi Introduces HIV
Prevention Legislation with 60 Cosponsors; June 30, 1999
- $3 million for AIDS
Education and Training Center in San Francisco; June 25, 1999
- Pelosi Calls for Increased AIDS Funding and Medicaid Expansion to Address
Disparities in AIDS Care.
- Pelosi Introduces Legislation to Provide Early Treatment for HIV;
April 28, 1999
- Pelosi Introduces Legislation to Fight Infectious
Disease On World TB Day; March 24, 1999
- Increased ADAP Funding
Needed; Data Shows Limited Access to AIDS Drugs; March 8, 1999
- Pelosi Calls for Increases in HIV
Prevention Funding; January 28, 1999
- Concern Over Draft Guidelines for National HIV
Case Surveillance; January 11, 1999
- $8.7 Million in CDC Funding for HIV
Prevention in San Francisco; December 29, 1998
- $36.2M Grant for Programs Helping San Franciscans With HIV/AIDS;
December 15, 1998
- Congressional Black Caucus AIDS
Initiative Briefing Held in San Francisco; December 2, 1998
- San Francisco to Receive $8.5 Million for HOPWA
Program; December 2, 1998
- On the Observance of World
AIDS Day; November 24, 1998
- President Urged to Include Asymptomatic HIV-Positive
Patients Under Medicaid; November 18, 1998
- Pelosi Joins President, CBC; Announces Minority HIV/AIDS
Plan; October 28, 1998
- Pelosi Announces AIDS Funding
Increases in End of Year Budget; October 20, 1998
- Pelosi Welcomes New CDC Figures That Show Significant Decline in AIDS
Deaths But Cautions That Prevention Must Remain a Top Priority; October 7,
1998
- Pelosi Congratulates Miss
America '98 On New Job at AIDS Action; October 6, 1998
- Visitacion Valley, HOPWA Funding
Included in VA-HUD Bill; October 5, 1998
- Global AIDS Testimony
Before Int'l Relations Committee; September 16, 1998
- On Legalizing Marijuana
for Medicinal Use; September 15, 1998
- On the Loss of AIDS Researcher Jonathan
Mann; September 4, 1998
- Hefley Amendment Regarding Rights for Gay/Lesbian
Federal Workers; August 5, 1998
- Gephardt, Pelosi Lead Call for Expansion of Medicaid to Include Early Treatments
for Low-Income People with HIV;
August 3, 1998
- In Opposition to the Riggs
Amendment Against Local Autonomy; July 29, 1998
- In Defense of the Housing
Opportunities for People With AIDS Program; July 29, 1998
- Pelosi Denounces Assault on Local
Control in Riggs Amendment Fight; July 29, 1998
- Abbot vs. Bragdon Supreme Court Decision On HIV
Discrimination; June 25, 1998
- Statement On Ending Discrimination
in America; June 23, 1998
- On Helping People Who Contracted HIV
Via Blood Clotting Products; May 19, 1998
- On Legislation Prohibiting Federal Funds For Needle
Exchange; April 29, 1998
- Pelosi Emphasizes Science Over Politics in Needle
Exchange Debate; April 29, 1998
- Pelosi Responds to Administration's Failure to Fund Needle
Exchange; April 20, 1998
- Pelosi Calls for an End to Needle
Exchange Program Funding Ban; March 26, 1998
- Pelosi Supports Safe Access to Medical Marijuana;
March 24, 1998
- Pelosi Reports on AIDS
Issues Before Congress; February 1998
- HIV Transmission
Testimony Before Commerce Subcommittee; February 5, 1998
- Money for Programs Helping People With HIV/AIDS;
January 8, 1998
- Commending Clinton For Proposed Increase to ADAP
Program; December 31, 1997
- Pelosi Statement on USAID Report on the Impact of AIDS
Abroad; December 2, 1997
- Pelosi Statement in Observance of World
AIDS Day; December 1, 1997
- Pelosi Introduces HIV
Treatment Improvement Act to Fight AIDS; November 14, 1997
- On Funding the Departments of Labor,
HHS and Education; November 7, 1997
- Pelosi Announces $50,000 Grant for AIDS
Housing Program; November 3, 1997
- Increased AIDS Drug
Assistance Program (ADAP) Funding; October 31, 1997
- Pelosi Secures $204 Million for HOPWA AIDS
Program; October 9, 1997
- House Republicans Scuttle Needle
Exchange Program; September 11, 1997
- In Support of Needle Exchange;
September 11, 1997
- In Support of the AIDS
Drug Assistance Program; September 9, 1997
- In Support of Labor-HHS
Appropriations; September 4, 1997
- Introduction of Needle
Exchange Legislation; August 20, 1997
- Increased Funding for AIDS
Drug Program; July 15, 1997
- Ceremony at AIDS Memorial
Grove; June 20, 1997
- ADAP Funding in 1997
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act; May 15, 1997
- VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriaitons;
April 30, 1997
- On President Clinton's 1998 AIDS
Budget Request; February 6, 1997
- On President Clinton's 1998 Budget
Request; February 6, 1997
- AIDS Legislative Update;
December 1, 1996
- Additional Funding
for AIDS Programs; September 28, 1996
- Health Care Reform;
August 1, 1996
- In Opposition to the So-Called Defense
of Marriage Act; July 11, 1996
- Embryo Research; July
11, 1996
- Testimony for AIDS Housing;
May 8, 1996
- Ryan White CARE Act;
May 1, 1996
- HIV Discrimination
in the Department of Defense; December 15, 1995
- Democratic Alternative Medicare
Hearings; September 27, 1995
- Republican Medicaid Cuts
and California; September 21, 1995
