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May 18, 2012
House Democrats are committed to strengthening the middle class, growing the economy, and creating jobs.  But after 500 days, this is what we know about House Republicans: they are choosing politics over progress for the middle class while demanding that America borrows more money from China in order to extend tax breaks for millionaires and companies that ship jobs overseas.
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May 18, 2012
The GOP is at it again – launching a "new" energy message tour to criticize the President and Democrats is just their latest effort to downplay the last 499 days of obstructing economic recovery and picking millionaires over the middle class.
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May 17, 2012
All Americans have a fundamental right to participate in our electoral process.  Far too often, however, voices are silenced with discriminatory barriers, and many across the country are not only enforcing those barriers but enacting new restrictive measures.
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May 16, 2012
From House Democrats?  Nope.

Leading women's organizations?  Sorry – groups that oppose this dangerous legislation include: the U.S.

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May 15, 2012
Over the weekend, Leader Pelosi led a bipartisan Delegation to Afghanistan, the first delegation to enter the country since President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai signed the historic Strategic Partnership Agreement.  The two-day visit, which included visits to Helmand and Kandahar provinces, allowed the delegation to not only visit troops on Mothers' Day weekend, but to also take p
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May 15, 2012
Speaker John Boehner and the "House GOP leadership [are] considering linking a short-term extension of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts to an overhaul of the tax system this summer…" [Roll Call, 5/15]

President Obama and Congressional Democrats support extending tax cuts for Am

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May 14, 2012
"The bipartisan efforts of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on a range of issues have attracted grumblings from the right."  [The Hill, 5/14]

Wait. What?

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May 14, 2012
As Speaker John Boehner and the House Republicans push their millionaires over middle class and Medicare, obstruction-only agenda, it's America's women who will once again pay the price this week on the House floor.

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May 11, 2012
It's been another banner week for House Republicans to showcase what they do best: dysfunction and obstruction.  In the past five days, the GOP:

Voted to begin implementing their out-of-touch budget that puts millionaires ahead of the middle class while ending the Medicare guarantee.

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May 10, 2012
Instead of moving forward on the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that passed the Senate by a vote of 68 to 31, the House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) passed a GOP version of the bill on Tuesday night that weakens VAWA and limits protections.