House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi[1] removed one of the last hurdles standing in front of her becoming the next speaker of the House after Democrats from the Problem Solvers Caucus announced Wednesday they had won enough concessions to support her bid.
Members of the Problem Solvers have been pushing Mrs. Pelosi[2] to accept changes to the rules of the House that would empower individual members and promote bipartisanship.
“We said from the moment that we began our work on these reforms six months ago, that we would only support a Speaker who was willing to agree to rules changes that would help Break the Gridlock,” the nine Democrats from the group said in a statement. “We have reached such an agreement with Leader Pelosi[3] to help Break the Gridlock for the American people and will support her, so these rules and reforms can be adopted in January.”
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Mrs. Pelosi[4] who has gradually taken apart the opposition to her speaker’s bid.