Pelosi gives 8-hour speech to push for 'Dreamers' amid budget settlement

Thursday, February 8, 2018

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech Wednesday in hopes of pressuring Republicans to allow a vote on protecting "Dreamer" immigrants -- and to demonstrate to increasingly angry progressives and Democratic activists that she has done all she could.

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