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In less than 24 hours, 179 Members of Congress signed on a discharge petition demanding Speaker Boehner and House Republicans give the American people a vote on the Export-Import Bank’s economic certainty.

It’s yet another banner week for Congressional Republicans who’ve done nothing but cause more dysfunction, obstruction and distraction.

Today, Congressional Democrats stood in strong support of raising the minimum wage to $12 – unveiling new legislation that puts more money in the pockets of millions of hard-working American families.  While Republicans continue to hand billions in tax breaks t

Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans announced their "Work Harder for Less" budget conference agreement yesterday.  It's been a week for them.  Secret negotiationsto pulling bills

Last night, 30 House Republicans voted against an amendment offered by Rep. Tammy Duckworth to strip a provision from the NDAA that would have blocked predatory lending protections for American servicemembers and their families.

House GOP Majority Leader McCarthy and House Republicans have been bragging about apparently beginning the appropriations process "the earliest since 1974."

Spoiler alert. 

Last week, House Republicans overwhelmingly voted to allow predatory lenders on military bases, and those convicted of fraud against our nation's troops, to serve on advisory boards for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.