“Nancy Pelosi is not off to a smoking start as House Speaker.
The California Democrat declared Wednesday that the Speaker's Lobby at the U.S. Capitol will be off-limits to smokers.
"The days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over," Pelosi said in a statement. "Medical science has unquestionably established the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of cancer and respiratory diseases.
"I am a firm believer that Congress should lead by example," she continued. "Effective immediately, smoking will no longer be permitted in the Speaker's Lobby of the United States Capitol.”
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As a corollary to her royal edict, Pelosi declared that male House members will hereafter no longer to stand up while urinating. Citing the every increasing need to blur the distinctions between the sexes, the Speaker said, “ It is long overdue that privileges once given exclusively to men are revoked so that women are not made to feel inferior.”
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) applauded the decision.
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