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Lost in Translation: The Boehner-Cantor Op-Ed
August 17, 2011
In today's USA Today, Speaker Boehner and Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor co-author an op-ed which misses the mark completely – ignoring jobs and defending the GOP's ideological agenda to end Medicare and cut Social Security for our working families while protecting tax breaks and loopholes for Big Oil and companies that ship American jobs overseas.

When they wrote this…

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Affordable Care Act Ruling in 11th Circuit Appeals Court
August 12, 2011
While some are using every means to undermine patients' rights, we will continue to strongly oppose efforts by those who want to put insurance companies back in charge of health care, instead of patients and doctors.

Just today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a critical step forward toward affordable, accessible health care for all Americans. With grants to states to help them build health exchanges, we are encouraging competition and choice that will allow Americans to buy private, affordable health insurance.

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Joint Select Committee Must Put Prosperity for the American People First
August 11, 2011
This afternoon, Leader Pelosi announced her appointments to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction--Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn, Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Xavier Becerra and Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen:

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Memo to House GOP: One Word to Describe Your Behavior
August 9, 2011
To: Congressional Republicans

Fr: Democratic Leader's Press Office

Dt: August 9, 2011

Re: One Word to Describe Your Behavior

Let's get this straight…

You continue to ignore job creation (217 days and counting);

You brought our country to the brink of default and an economic catastrophe so you could protect tax breaks for Big Oil, companies that ship jobs overseas, and the wealthiest Americans.

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Calling for Transparency on Joint Committee Deliberations
August 8, 2011
Leader Pelosi issued the following statement calling for transparency with respect to the Joint Committee's deliberations:

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July Jobs Report
August 5, 2011
The Department of Labor announced that the economy added a total of 117,000 jobs in July, including 154,000 in the private sector, and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 9.1 percent:

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GOP: 'My Way or the Runway'
August 3, 2011
House Republicans left DC for the August District Work Period on Monday night abandoning 4,000 furloughed workers and tens of thousands of private sector workers affected by the Republican-forced Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shutdown.
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Leader Pelosi: It’s Time To End This Theater Of The Absurd
July 30, 2011

Transcript:

"Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding, applaud him for his superb leadership of this bill today, recognize the great leadership of Mr. Van Hollen as our Ranking Member on the Budget Committee—and he and Mr. Clyburn representing the values of the American people at the negotiating table for this.

"I rise in support of the Reid legislation, urge my colleagues to support it because it protects Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, because it is fair.

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House GOP: Rank & File Wag the Leadership
July 30, 2011
The partisan charade by Republicans this past two weeks has left no question who is really in charge of the House GOP.

Dan Balz with the Washington Post - Debt-ceiling debate shows a Republican Party at war with itself:

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The Only Thing Bipartisan About S.627 Was Opposition
July 29, 2011
This afternoon, the House wasted valuable time on the latest version of S.627, the Republican Default Act, which was revised again this afternoon after it failed to garner enough support yesterday. Four days before we default, instead of moving towards a compromise, the House Republican leadership moved a bill that has no chance of passing the Senate even more to the right-–adding a key element of H.R. 2560 (the so-called "Cut, Cap, and Balance Act").