The House GOP’s refusal to bring President Obama’s American Jobs Act – which includes crucial provisions to extend the payroll tax cut for workers and small businesses and continue jobless benefits – to the floor for a vote comes with … Continue reading
Today, the United States Supreme Court announced it would consider legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act. As the White House blog writes, “earlier this year, the Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court to hear the case against the Affordable … Continue reading
Today Speaker Boehner rolled out the GOP’s ‘Protect Billionaires and Big Oil’ go-to list of conservative economists in an attempt to paper over their failure to offer a jobs agenda after 308 days of being in the majority. But the … Continue reading
From the New York Times today–Staring Into the Budget’s Abyss, excerpts: Republicans, looking for leverage to slash federal spending, created the phony debit-ceiling crisis that led to creation of the Congressional deficit-cutting “supercommittee.” But with the committee close to a … Continue reading
Yesterday, on This Week with Christiane Amanpour, Speaker Boehner continued his strong defense of millionaires and billionaires, responding to the wealthiest Americans paying their fair share with: “Come on.” Come on, Mr. Speaker: 65 percent of Americans say it would … Continue reading
The New York Times November 4, 2011 Putting Millionaires Before Jobs Excerpts: There’s nothing partisan about a road or a bridge or an airport; Democrats and Republicans have voted to spend billions on them for decades and long supported rebuilding … Continue reading
To: Congressional Democrats and Democratic Staff Fr: Democratic Leader’s Press Office Dt: November 4, 2011 Re: Will Republicans Listen to Grover Norquist or the American People? Democrats are listening to America’s entrepreneurs, small business owners and local leaders on how … Continue reading
Answering a question at her weekly press conference today, Leader Pelosi commented on the lack of jobs legislation by House Republicans and contrasted that with President Obama’s action on the economy: One week and one day after the President made … Continue reading
Today, Leader Pelosi, Speaker Boehner, and Members of Congress held a ceremony to bestow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award given by Congress, to Japanese-American veterans who served in the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, … Continue reading
“Everybody believes we have infrastructure deficiencies and more needs to be spent to repair, replace and in some cases build new infrastructure…The problem is nobody wants to pay for it.” – Speaker John Boehner [AP, 11/1] The GOP claims they … Continue reading