Pelosi mocks McCarthy overnight speech to stall Biden spending bill vote

Published November 19, 2021 4:18pm ET



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t impressed with Republican rival Kevin McCarthy’s overnight speech aimed at blocking the passage of a key plank in President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.

Asked Friday at a news conference about McCarthy’s record-breaking speech of 8 and 1/2 hours on the House floor to stall a vote on the Build Back Better Bill, Pelosi said she “didn’t even pay attention” to the speech because speeches on the other side of the aisle are “not fraught with meaning or fact.”

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