This Time, Pelosi Lets The Kids Do The Talking

Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 3:51PM
Talk Radio News Service (Admin) in Congress, News/Commentary, Sofia Sanchez, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, take your daughter/ son to work day

By Sofia Sanchez
University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service

“Why are there so many problems with the government?” A question commonly asked by anti-government tea party'ers came straight from the mouth of a child during House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) weekly press conference.

On the annual ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,' the Speaker fielded hard-hitting questions not from Washington journalists, but rather mainly from children in attendance.

“I am getting a tenure of the dinner conversations at home,” joked Pelosi. "Here come the real tough questions."

During her time at the podium, Pelosi took questions on topics ranging from the environment, to politics, to how she became the elected Speaker of the House.

Surely, not being bombarded by seasoned reporters with follow-up questions on Wall Street reform and ethics investigations was a nice change for Pelosi.

Article originally appeared on Talk Radio News Service: News, Politics, Media (http://www.talkradionews.com/).