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This morning, Speaker Boehner sat down with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "Good Morning America":

STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, we asked-- our viewers for questions for you. And so many came in on the same exact theme. Where are the jobs? What is this Congress doing for jobs?

BOEHNER: Well, that's interesting, George. Because it really is our number one priority… 

House GOP Committee Chairs are doing their part to compliment Speaker Boehner's style – "kick off least productive session in more than a decade." National Journal:

Speaker Boehner's style of (not) running the House is coming into focus again with the GOP's latest maneuver to ensure the debt-ceiling-as-hostage option remains open.

From BuzzFeed: John Boehner Sits Back As Ted Cruz Fights Budget Negotiations:

House Republicans are operating in fantasyland.

Instead of naming budget conferees to work with the Senate on a bipartisan budget agreement, the GOP used a "deem and pass" maneuver to pretend the devastating Ryan Republican budget passed in both the House and Senate so they could use it as the basis for this week's appropriations bills.

After 37 votes, one would think the GOP would be ready to move on from their dead-end political strategy to repeal the Affordable Care Act… but they are not content with sitting back and letting the "law of the land" benefit millions of Americans. The GOP's latest objective is to undermine the health insurance Marketplaces at every turn, driving up costs and limiting access to affordable, quality insurance coverage.

It's time to #DoYourJobGOP.

We are 135 days into the 113th Congress and House Republicans are utterly failing to do their job.  Instead of doing the work the American people sent them to Washington to do, the GOP is wasting time and taxpayer dollars chasing scandals and voting on dead-end bills to nowhere.

This week, House Republicans will do what they do best: waste taxpayer dollars on a dead-end bill designed to do nothing more than generate talking points for the Tea Party faction.  The vote du jour is the 37^th attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act… so far, the GOP anti-health care crusade has cost American taxpayers a total of

The latest salvo from House Republicans in the hit on women's paychecks is nothing new... From the bill name to their rhetoric, the American people have seen this before.

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Working Families Flexibility Act of 1996 [H.R. 2391] – Rejected by Congress

Working Families Flexibility Act of 1997 [H.R. 1] – Rejected by Congress

Family Time Flexibility Act of 2003 [H.R. 1113] – Rejected by Congress

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