Pelosi: I make more than you

Published August 1, 2008 4:00am ET



In her weekly news briefing Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her support for equal pay for women might be “because I’m a woman [or] maybe because I’m the highest-paid person on Capitol Hill.”


Take that, Y-chromosomes.


But she wasn’t done standing up for the fairer sex. As the briefing wore on, she grew impatient that she was taking questions only from men. “Wait a minute. Any women?” she asked.


And again, a few minutes later: “Women, women, any other women? This is equal-pay day, pay-equity day.”