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Pelosi hints, then denies she has Gingrich secrets (AP)

AP – Does House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi know some dark secrets about GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich? Twice, she offered tantalizing hints that she does. And then said she doesn’t. Gingrich said Wednesday that the House Democratic leader should come out with it or shut up.

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Pelosi on a President Gingrich: ‘That will never happen,’ I know ‘something’  

It’s looking like all-out war between Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich.

The California Congresswoman is ripping the Republican presidential candidate, arguing there is no way he’ll assume office — cryptically adding she knows “something” that will prevent him from getting the GOP nomination.

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Perry picks fight with Pelosi (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaks to employees during a campaign stop at Granite State Manufacturing, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP – Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who’s running for president, is picking a fight with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who is not. Struggling to steady his bid for the GOP nomination, Perry this week launched an outsider’s campaign against Washington culture and challenged Pelosi, ousted last year from the House speakership, to debate his plan to overhaul Congress.


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Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee (AP)

FILE - In this March 14, 2011 file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, right, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Portman has been name to the powerful new committee that will try to come up with a bipartisan plan this fall to reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $1 trillion. (AP Photo, File)AP – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s appointment Thursday of three Democrats to Congress’ new debt-reduction supercommittee completes the roster of a panel whose members are already being tugged in competing directions.


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Pelosi calls for ethics probe into Wu sex report (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2010 file photo, Congressman David Wu, D-Ore., speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore. Wu is calling a published report about an alleged unwanted sexual encounter with a young woman 'very serious' but has not yet said whether the accusation is true. The Oregonian reports that a young woman from California has accused the Democrat of an unwanted sexual encounter last November. The newspaper said the information came from sources who wanted to remain anonymous. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)AP – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Sunday called for an ethics panel investigation of Rep. David Wu following a published allegation that a young woman reported he’d engaged in “aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior.”


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Pelosi formally requests Weiner ethics probe (AP)

U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, addresses a news conference in New York,  Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to 'inappropriate' exchanges with six women before and after getting married. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has formally requested a House ethics panel probe of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner. Pelosi on Tuesday sent a brief letter to the leaders of the committee noting that Weiner had “disclosed conduct that he described as inappropriate.”


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Uneasy House Democrats keep Pelosi as their leader (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, after being re-elected as the leader of the House Democrats.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – House Democrats gambled Wednesday they can return to power under the same leaders who just oversaw a 61-seat election loss, choosing Nancy Pelosi to remain their party chief when they become the minority in January.


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