I finally finished transcribing the speeches and organizing my video footage from Nancy Pelosi’s Celebration Party on November 23, 2002 in San Francisco, California.

I say to people “you can take any issue or you can take any day of the week, and there is a case to be made against the Republicans.” But let’s just take yesterday.

Yesterday, Congress adjourned without passing unemployment benefits for Americas workers — who worked hard, played by the rules, lost their jobs through no fault of their own but because of the downturn in the economy.

On December 28, 800,000 hard working Americans will no longer have their benefits because the Republicans refused to pass that. There was even a compromise from the Senate, which we still controlled up until yesterday, that said: ‘Let’s extend the benefits until February at least to give people a chance past the holidays and the rest.’ They absolutely refused.

The Democrats said ‘We’re going to hold up the adjournment of Congress so that we cannot leave until you pass these benefits.’ They said ‘you can bring the Congress back here every single day from now on. We’re never going to pass those benefits.’ That’s who the Republicans in Congress are…insensitive to the concerns of working families in America.”