Nancy Pelosi

SAN FRANCISCO - Proponents of Prop. 1A rolled out three of California's biggest political guns Friday to urge state voters to support the ballot measure which promises to build the nation's first true high speed rail system.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined Superior Court Judge Quentin Kopp for a press conference to promote the initiative which, if approved by the voters on Tuesday, would authorize the sale of $9.9 billion of state-backed construction bonds.

Nancy Pelosi

PORTLAND -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a rare visit to Oregon on Friday, telling Obama supporters at a house party TK she was swinging through the state to shore up support for congressional candidate Kurt Schrader and Barack Obama.

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) can tighten the screws on her members, but it doesn't always work - even amongst members of her own California caucus.

Earlier this week, Pelosi sent an e-mail to her Democratic caucus identifying some 30 members who have been tardy in paying their dues to the party's House campaign arm this cycle.

The message was loud and clear: Badger away.

"Enclosed, please find a list of our colleagues who have only fulfilled 50 percent or less of their dues obligations," Pelosi and her fellow Democratic House leaders wrote in the e-mail. "Please encourage them to be a part of the team. The number of seats we gain will depend on the resources we have to compete in these closing days."