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Republicans are standing on the wrong side of history. Just yesterday, a Republican-backed amendment to ban same-sex marriage passed in North Carolina.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence – Letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith & Ranking Member John Conyers:
Unless Congress acts, the interest rates on more than 7 million students will double to 6.8 percent on July 1st. Failure to act now will add $6.3 billion to students' debt burden in one year alone. The doubling of loan rates will hit students at a time when they can least afford it:
Young Americans have the highest unemployment rate of any other groupTwo-thirds of the Class of 2010 graduated with student loan debt--leaving school with an average of $25,000 of student loan debt
Apparently, the "Do-Nothing-But-Harm" House Republican Congress is planning to rest after voting to end the Medicare guarantee, reward the rich and famous with tax breaks, and destroy jobs.
Yesterday, House Republicans had opportunities to restore fairness for our middle class and small businesses—yet again and again they chose to reward the wealthiest instead.
On the House floor, Democrats called for a vote on the Buffett Rule to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share as we work to responsibly reduce the deficit. House Republicans blocked the proposal—preferring to let the middle class pay the price.
Today, House Republicans passed Leader Eric Cantor's latest tax cuts for the rich and famous, disguised, of course, as a job-creating small business bill. Even The Wall Street Journal describes this as a "ploy" and a "gimmick" while "Republicans stumble over another temporary tax cut."