Blog Post
To: Interested Parties
Fr: Democratic Leader's Press Office
Dt: September 10, 2012
Re: GOP "Do Nothing" Congress Doing What They Do Best – Nothing
After a five week summer break, the GOP-led Congress finally is back in session… for just eight legislative days this month. That's right – a week and a half to do, or not do as the case is with this Congress, the businesses of the American people.
Rep. Paul Ryan has led House Republicans in voting to end the Medicare guarantee, which increases costs on seniors in order to give tax breaks to millionaires, Big Oil, and corporations that ship jobs overseas.
Congressman Xavier Becerra's office put together this helpful timeline to remind us of Social Security's achievements:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed a House Republican budget which achieves many terrible results for the nation. Among them, here are three important facts you need to know:
The House Democratic Leader's press office produced a video to highlight the GOP walking out on a job that's not done:
What did the GOP-led Congress leave behind? The American people and a laundry list of unfinished business.
• NO JOBS AGENDA
The House will soon vote on H.R. 8, a Republican-sponsored measure which would end vital expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit and ends the American Opportunity Tax Credit (which helps make college more affordable for middle class families).
House Democrats introduced a bill to cut middle class taxes and give one hundred percent of Americans a tax cut. This is the same bill that has already passed the Senate and would be signed into law by President Obama without delay. The only ones standing in the way of the middle class and a tax cut are House Republicans.