Pelosi, Other US Lawmakers in Jordan for Meetings on Syria

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12, 2019. Tom Brenner/Getty Images

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a delegation of mostly Democratic lawmakers are in Jordan to meet with top Jordanian officials on Syria.

A statement from the Speaker’s office Saturday said Pelosi and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.), Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), and Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) arrived in the country to meet with King Abdullah II and other officials.