FACT SHEET: Top Ten Actions of House Republicans in the First 100 Days
April 15, 2015
TOP TEN ACTIONS OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS
April 15 Marks 100th Day of 114th Congress; During First 100 Days, House Republicans Have Been in Session for 10 Weeks: Here Are Highlights of Those 10 Weeks
| Week 1 | Voted to cause one million Americans to lose their employer-sponsored health coverage |
| Week 2 | Voted to deport the DREAMERs, whose parents brought them here as children and who know no other home than the United States |
| Week 3 | Voted for an unprecedented assault on women's health care, placing restrictions on how women with private insurance can spend private dollars in purchasing coverage |
| Week 4 | Pulled from consideration their much-celebrated GOP Border Security bill, when fellow Republicans said about the bill: "it is an effort to convince the American people we are doing something substantive to secure the border when in fact nothing substantive is being done." |
| Week 5 | Voted to strip millions of Americans of their health coverage; allow insurers to once again deny coverage to millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions, impose lifetime limits, and deny young adults ability to stay on their parents' plan; raise taxes on middle class families by taking away premium tax credits; and increase the deficit by $109 billion |
| Week 6 | Voted to increase the deficit by nearly $80 billion to fund tax breaks for business, while insisting investments in the middle class, such as initiatives to improve student loans, must be paid for |
| Week 7 | Endangered our national security by coming within hours of shutting down our homeland security (prevented by a one-week funding measure), all to appease their anti-immigrant Tea Party extremists |
| Week 8 | Nearly 70 percent of House Republicans then voted NO on the bill to prevent a homeland security shutdown for the rest of the fiscal year |
| Week 9 | Undermined workers' fundamental rights, by voting for an extreme measure that rolls back and undermines workers' rights to fair, timely elections on union representation |
| Week 10 | Voted for a radical budget that, while greenlighting a $200,000 tax cut for millionaires, ended the Medicare guarantee, and slashed student loans/aid by $220 billion, transportation by $187 billion, food stamps by $125 billion, and Medicaid by one-third |