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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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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.
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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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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…
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August 8, 2011
Leader Pelosi issued the following statement calling for transparency with respect to the Joint Committee's deliberations:
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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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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 Fede
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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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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.