Nancy Pelosi

Fifteen Republicans have already announced that they will not be returning to Congress next year.

Here's the scorecard as we head for 2020: Trump and the Republicans - 2; Pelosi and the Democrats - 0.

House speaker blamed the Senate majority leader for not allowing a vote on a bill passed by Congress extending background checks.

"It's hopeless. It makes no sense at all," the former Republican Speaker of the House said in an interview with Fox News.

"So, let's save time. Let's just get it done — now," the speaker of the House said.

The House will likely focus on legislation around gun policy and election security and the Senate, led by Republican Mitch McConnell, has a large group of judicial nominees waiting for approval.

"The relationship between the State of Israel and the United States is a link between peoples, which relies on historical ties, deep and strong friendships and shared values," Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told Nancy Pelosi.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Ghana and swiped at President Donald Trump's recent "go back" rhetoric.

Four of the country's largest progressive grassroots organizations are tired of waiting on House Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings—so they're combining their efforts.

In keeping with her commitment to the high road, the former first lady opted to lift up a Baltimore-based group rather than issue an outright condemnation of Trump's remarks.

Warren referred to Cummings as one of her "dearest friends," saying he "is a good man through and through, and he fights for what is just in this country."

"We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership," Pelosi said about Cummings.

Jerrold Nadler and his Judiciary Committee colleagues conceded they were in the midst of investigating whether articles of impeachment should be filed against Trump. Or, in other words, an impeachment inquiry.

"I consider myself a weaver, at the loom, just making all of those threads come together in the boldest possible way," the House Speaker said of unifying members of her Democratic caucus.

"You should call them the 'Leadership Squad' since they are the speakers in fact," Rep. Tom Emmer said of the progressive "Squad."

"You can't leave fast enough," President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter, referencing progressive Democratic congresswomen.

"You won't accept a nation that sees healthcare as a right or education as a #1 priority, especially where we're the ones fighting for it," she tweeted.

"Families belong together," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. "Every person in America has rights."

Comments by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have resulted in an intra-party struggle by suggesting that Pelosi was being "outright disrespectful" with "the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color."

The doubling down came as the ideological disagreements between Pelosi and freshmen progressives over emergency aid and the power wielded by new members spilled over into the public arena.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has clashed repeatedly with her Democratic colleagues in "The Squad": Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.

The House panel requested the Labor secretary's presence at a hearing later this month. But Nancy Pelosi has publicly poured cold water on the prospect of hauling in the Trump official before Congress.

"Remember that time your boss tore babies from their mothers' arms and threw them in cages? Yeah take a seat and keep my name out of your lying mouth," Pressley tweeted.

"Having respect for ourselves doesn't mean we lack respect for her," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "It means we won't let everyday people be dismissed."

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ripped President Donald Trump and his administration's fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, despite the Supreme Court already blocking such an attempt.

"Speaker Pelosi can and should open a full investigation into why child sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein was protected over the survivors of his abuse," UltraViolet's executive director said in a statement.

"I don't think Alexandria and her friends ... they haven't learned, they haven't been in Congress enough to understand that negotiations happen in Congress," Jose Aristimuño said.

"Fox & Friends" fawned over Nancy Pelosi Monday and offered rare praise of the House Speaker, even musing about her similarities to President Donald Trump's "trolling."

"I believe I have to use my skills, my public influence, where it serves the country best, and I believe I have to defend the Constitution in whichever way works best," said the Michigan congressman.

"All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world," Pelosi said, referring to the four freshman lawmakers. "But they didn't have any following. They're four people and that's how many votes they got."