The GOP keeps lying and saying Pelosi asked for a plane. In fact, she offered to fly commercial, and it was the House sergeant-at-arms who made the request for a larger plane for security purposes.
Amid the hubbub, House Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Livingood, who is charged with the speaker's security, issued a statement saying it actually was he, not Pelosi, who had requested that the military provide the larger plane so Pelosi could fly nonstop to San Francisco.
"The fact that Speaker Pelosi lives in California compelled me to request an aircraft that is capable of making nonstop flights for security purposes, unless such an aircraft is unavailable," Livingood said in a statement. "I regret that an issue that is exclusively considered and decided in a security context has evolved into a political issue."
Pelosi said Thursday that she'd be happy to fly commercial.
"We never asked for a larger plane. This is a myth that (the Republicans) are talking about on the floor," she said.
2007-02-09
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