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Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the following remarks today at the traditional St. Patrick's Day lunch she hosted this afternoon in the Capitol with President George W. Bush and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern of Ireland: 'It is a great honor to host today's luncheon. “My colleagues, earlier we had the opportunity to welcome the President of the United States and the Taoiseach to this St. Patrick's Day lunch. My colleagues and Members of the United States Senate who are present, let us now extend a warm welcome to the visiting delegations from Ireland and from Northern Ireland. Thank you all for being with us. We are honored by your presence." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) read a St. Patrick's Day poem written by Bono about the war in Ukraine. "Oh St. Patrick, he drove out the snakes with his prayers, but that's not all it Nancy Pelosi marked St. Patrick's Day by reading a poem by Bono about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. we're Ukrainians," he told the European Union in a speech in the early days of the fighting Today (March 17) is St. Patrick’s Day, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosted the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the White House. At the luncheon, Speaker Pelosi read a poem that she said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi read a St. Patrick’s Day poem by Irish musician Bono that declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a modern-day version of Ireland’s patron saint. On Thursday, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared a new poem written by Bono at the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon, with the U2 frontman comparing the Nancy Pelosi recited the new bit of verse by Bono about Ukraine at the Friends of Ireland St. Patrick's Day lunch. It was not particularly well-received. Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden attended the Speaker’s Lunch at Capitol Hill on St. Patrick’s Day.On Thursday, 17 March, the speaker of the house of representati During the White House’s annual Friends of Ireland luncheon – celebrated each year to commemorate St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a poem by U2 President Donald Trump has decided to skip the annual Congressional St. Patrick’s Day lunch on Capitol Hill, according to Politico‘s Playbook. “Since the Speaker [of the House Nancy Pelosi] has chosen to tear this Nation apart with her actions and her rhetoric, the President will not participate in moments where she so often chooses to drive discord and disunity, and will instead President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have declined an invitation to attend the annual St. Patrick’s Day lunch on Capitol Hill on Thursday, marking the first time since the event House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reminded Donald Trump of the importance of immigration during a St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Capitol on Thursday. During her remarks, she noted that the annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner on Capitol Hill was a tradition started in the 1980s by Speaker Tip O’Neil and President Ronald Reagan. President Donald Trump slammed and snubbed Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday with an announcement he won't attend the annual St. Patrick's Day lunch in the Capitol this Thursday.. It's the first time Newsweek contacted Representative Pelosi for comment via telephone and voicemail message on Wednesday outside of regular office hours.. Why It Matters. Pelosi, now aged 84, served as speaker for Speaker Pelosi reads #StPatricksDay poem by Bono, which reads in part: "Ireland's sorrow and pain Is now the Ukraine And Saint Patrick's name now Zelenskyy." She then introduces Riverdance. pic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recited a St. Patrick’s Day poem written by Bono about the war in Ukraine, which includes the name “Saint Patrick’s name now Zelenskyy,” after the Ukrainian The U2 frontman was mocked for the piece of prose after Pelosi read it aloud during the St Patrick's Day luncheon. The poem referenced the war in Ukraine heavily, but many found it to be Simultaneously celebrating St. Patricks Day and addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Nancy Pelosi read a new poem written by Bono on Thursday at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon. The Taoiseach was supposed to meet with Biden in person in the Oval Office and attend the yearly St. Patrick's Day Friends of Ireland lunch hosted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill.
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