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Pelosi’s backroom arm-twisting ratchets up on Dems ahead of votes on big spending bills

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined at left by Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., holds a rally in support of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" for women agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

By Kerry Picket and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

The thin margins in Congress and the high stakes for muscling through $5.7 trillion of new spending put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in one of the tightest binds of her long political career.

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People look up at a dead body hanged by the Taliban from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, on Saturday Sept. 29, 2021. A witness told The Associated Press that the bodies of four men were brought to the main square and three of them were moved to other parts of the city for public display. The Taliban announced in the square that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping and were killed by police. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken March 18, 2015, visitors walk to the Governors palace along Duke of Gloucester street in the Colonial Williamsburg area of Williamsburg, Va., John Hinckley, the last man to shoot an American president now spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community in Williamsburg. An almost three-hour drive south of Hinckley's institutional home of St. Elizabeths Hospital in the nation's capital, Williamsburg is both a tourist destination and a retirement mecca. (AP Photo/ Steve Helber)

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