Subject: Politico: 'Pelosi scolds Ryan and other GOP leaders over Trump'
From: Jeremy Funk <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 12:39:11 -0400

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/nancy-pelosi-paul-ryan-trump-support-223058#ixzz48MWoYxXB

Pelosi scolds Ryan and other GOP leaders over Trump

By Nolan D. McCaskill<http://www.politico.com/staff/nolan-d-mccaskill>

05/11/16 11:15 AM EDT

<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/nancy-pelosi-paul-ryan-trump-support-223058#ixzz48MWoYxXB>

Pelosi said Republicans appear to be surprised by the rhetoric Trump and former GOP candidates deployed on the campaign trail. "But year after year, Republicans have enthusiastically turned their intolerance and their discrimination into legislation," she said.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans in the chamber who have been unwilling to support Donald Trump.

"Some Republicans, including members of their leadership, have said they cannot support the vile rhetoric and radical proposals of the Republican front-runner," Pelosi said at the outset of a news conference convened by House Democrats. "Today, we have gathered to ask, since when? Since when have the House Republicans been so concerned about intolerant statements and discriminatory ideas?"

Pelosi said Republicans appear to be surprised by the rhetoric Trump and former GOP candidates deployed on the campaign trail. "But year after year, Republicans have enthusiastically turned their intolerance and their discrimination into legislation," she said.

The California Democrat argued that there isn't "a dime's worth of difference" between Trump and Republicans in the lower chamber, remarking that House Republicans attacked women's health care a dozen times and threatened a government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding.

"The Republicans have created an environment in radicalism, fear and exclusion," Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said. "The presumptive nominee is the result of their work, and what they have sowed is what they are reaping."

House Democrats sought to tie them to their party's standard-bearer as they eye retaking the House. Their comments come a day ahead of a scheduled meeting Ryan and other congressional leaders will have with Trump.

"The American people don't support policies that discriminate, which is why we're here today: to make sure that they know exactly what Donald Trump and House Republicans stand for and have stood for," Hoyer said.

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