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Today, Speaker Ryan released the latest plank of House Republicans’ Wrong Way agenda, another hollow effort to shift attention away from Republicans’ unprecedented and corrosive obstruction. But there was one eye-catching section – wherein Speaker Ryan complains about a problem that he has complete control over. Here’s what the document says about the “Power of the Purse” and the appropriations process.

While House Republicans respond to another horrific mass shooting with nothing but deafening silence and obstruction, House Democrats will continue to demand common sense action to save lives &honor the victims of gun violence.

Donald Trump continues to dominate the airwaves and headlines, and not for the right reasons.

Speaker Ryan and House Republicans today voted to continue advancing their radical #WrongWay agenda of discrimination and hate.

This week has not gone as expected for Speaker Ryan and House Republicans. It’s been awful for them.

Today was disastrous for Speaker Ryan and House Republicans. At a chaotic press event, the Republicans painfully tried to distract Americans from the GOP internal dysfunction, and their Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s racist attacks on a federal judge with a #WrongWay poverty agenda of repackaged policies that have proven to negatively impact hard-working Americans and increase poverty for many.

Speaker Ryan’s Republican Chairman of the Appropriations Health and Human Services Subcommittee, Tom Cole, meanwhile simply tells Americans deeply concerned about the danger of Zika: “don’t worry.” But how can the American people not be troubled?

It’s no wonder Republican Senator Marco Rubio is “really concerned” about the House’s work – so disturbed that he is urging Americans to confront their Representatives and demand from them meaningful action. It’s also no surprise these editorials boards are telling Speaker Ryan and the House GOP: #DoYourJob and stop playing games with this crisis: