The media environment has been completely upended since the last time Nancy Pelosi was speaker.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues are living under a harsh new reality fueled by the rise of Donald Trump — a scandal-driven climate with a five-minute news cycle that has proven impossible to control.“When have we ever had a presidency when the news cycle is dictated in the morning by what he tweets?” asked Rep. John Larson . “You’re working overtime to make your case, and it’s like pushing the bean uphill, you realize what a difficult job it is in this environment.
"With social media, with 24 hour news, with Donald Trump, we’re learning to do more than one thing," Rep. Gregory Meeks said. "We’ve got to address these extraneous issues but still understand that the key is doing our legislative work."Sign Up “I think if you read the papers and watch television and you ask who are the new members of Congress, you come up with three names,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Tuesday.
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