Did Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi step out of her jurisdiction by going to Syria? I have looked everywhere for information on her job duties, and have found nothing involving international affairs. This is all I found:
Position: Speaker of House
Job Description: The Speaker of the House serves as the leader of the House of Representatives. He/she may step down from the presiding role at any time to take part in debate on the House floor. This person typically announces appointments of committees. She/he will also appoint joint conference committee members from the house, as well as the chair and secretary for each committee, if needed. She/he calls roll for voting situations in which all house members are voting.
If someone knows of anything else, please feel free to send me a link to where I can find this information. Thanks.
2007-04-04 12:08:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I seem to have offended some people on here with this question. Relax, I'm not taking sides. There just seems to be a lot of controversy over this trip and I am interested in becoming more educated on her job description so I don't make uneducated accusations. Yes I am a Conservative, but that has nothing to do with the question.
2007-04-04 12:20:44 · update #1
The Constitution divides the foreign policy powers between the President and Congress but not in a definitive manner. Which means speaker Pelosi is well within her rights and obligations to do so
http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/6172.htm
2007-04-04 12:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes she did, as the Constitution is written.
Only the executive and the ambassadors have the power to conduct state visits, but Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful Democrat in office so she has an important political position and she can speak for herself and her party. Since it is almost guaranteed that a Democrat will become President in the next election that makes her power plainer.
Officially she cannot claim to represent the US, but unofficially she represents a large part of the people and so what she says is important.
2007-04-04 12:15:36 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It has always been customary for members of any sort of parliamentary body to keep relations (cordial or not, that's secondary) with the world public. Ancient Roman senators did it, the Japanese diet members do it, the British House of Lords does it, so why not us?
and in the case of Syrian-sponsored terrorism, having Pelosi there does not hurt. It asserts that U.S. authorities care about what's happening in Syria and right now it's a cordial visit. But soon enough, if Syria does not clean up its act, we gradually crack down on them.
(Pelosi and the Dems can't do that right now because we're too bogged down in Iraq and Iran...oops did i say Iran? I meant Iraq.)
2007-04-04 12:14:12 · answer #3 · answered by sdog 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
After much thought and consideration I have come to the conclusion... Nancy Pelosi's job is to annoy the hell out of republican.... to focus the republican attention to herself.... the more attention one pays to her the less attention they have left over to see how their own senators are voting etc..... Maybe the poor people of PA would have noticed that their senator was voting more with the democrat on issue then republican and it would have been no surprise to any of them when he jumped ship.
2016-03-28 23:39:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's no difference than other members of the House and Senate that do the same thing.
You seem to forget all the trips that have been made so you jump on Pelosi. Guess that you have some very serious problems with memory !!!
2007-04-04 12:15:04 · answer #5 · answered by supressdesires 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe that she did. I don't have a problem with her going on a "junket", almost all of our elected officials do that. My concern is with her apparent attempts to undertake her own foreign policy against the wishes of the administration charged with conducting those affairs.
I think Ms. Pelosi's "fame" is going a bit to her head. She seems to forget the fact that she was elected by the people of one district in California...not the people of the United States.
2007-04-04 12:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Members of Congress of both parties have visited foreign countries and met with foreign leaders many times. In fact Republicans are also visiting Syria, so what's the big deal?
2007-04-04 12:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
She is not only the Speaker of the House of Representatives, she is a U.S. Representative. They go on junkets all the time.
Why do conservatives obsess about this trip?
2007-04-04 12:14:03 · answer #8 · answered by hgherron2 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As I recall, she went on a "bi-partisan congressional trip" to Syria. That means congressman from both the Republican party and Democratic party went to Syria.
Are you suggesting that only Pelosi is overstepping and not the Republicans, like David Hobson, that went with her? Or the three other Republican congressman who went on separate trips this week?
2007-04-04 12:24:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Not at all.
Someone had to do it.
Bush can say or claim whatever he pleases. He's afraid of those people.
You see, he's all talk
But when you talk the talk
You should be willing to walk the walk
Naming a country as part of an "axis of evil"
certainly does not exactly encourage that country to give you an invite for crying out loud!
Bush should be grateful that ANY country welcomes an American.
Few welcome George Bush that's for certain.
Even Condi is rather useless at this juncture.
2007-04-04 12:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋