Pelosi Refuses to Call New Spending Another Stimulus Package

• By Steven T. Dennis
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 21, 2009, 1:49 p.m.

It looks like another stimulus package. It sounds like a stimulus package. It spends like a stimulus package. Her economic advisers are even calling it another stimulus. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insists her plans for a host of new spending is not a stimulus package.