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While today marks the start of the second session of the 112th Congress, it doesn't look like House Republicans learned their lesson from a year in the Majority ignoring America's top priority: job creation.

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This afternoon, Speaker Pro Tempore Robert Aderholt, under orders from Speaker Boehner, refused to allow Congressman Jim Moran to speak on the floor and call for the payroll tax cut conference committee to get to work:

House Democrats on the payroll tax cut conference committee—Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Congressman Sander Levin, Congressman Xavier Becerra, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, and Congressman Henry Waxman—sent a letter today to Congressman Dave Camp, the Chairman of the conference committee and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, calling for work developing the legislation to begin now and r

Today, the Department of Labor announced that the economy added 200,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent:

This morning, Speaker Pro Tempore Jeff Denham, under orders from Speaker Boehner, refused to allow Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn to speak on the floor and call for the payroll tax cut conference committee to get to work:

Today marks one year since Republicans took control of the House. We've got work to do, but the Republican House is marking the occasion by staying out of session while Americans are out of work.

Did the House GOP spend their time this year delivering a jobs agenda? Not even close. All the middle class got was:

A vote to end the Medicare guarantee