The First 250 Days of the Republican Congress: By the Numbers
250: September 12th is the 250th day of the 114th Congress
109: Days the GOP House has been in session, including 21 pro-forma days in which the House gaveled in & out in a matter of minutes & no legislative business was completed
4: Times House Republicans voted in support of the Confederate Battle Flag (2015 Vote #385, 2015 Vote #429, 2015 Vote #426, 2015 Vote #425)
1.5 million: Number of private-sector jobs created or sustained by Export-Import Bank since 2007
74: Days since House Republicans let the charter for the Ex-Im Bank expire
$9.3 billion: Financing to American companies that was in the pipeline when the charter expired and is now indefinitely on hold until Ex-Im Bank is reauthorized by Congress
5: Times House Republicans voted against renewing the job-creating Export-Import Bank (2015 Vote #116, 2015 Vote #126, 2015 Vote #371, 2015 Vote #379; 2015 Vote #483)
ZERO: GOP jobs bills passed in the 114th Congress
Just 49: Bills signed into law by President, including 37 noncontroversial, modest suspension bills, 2 unfinished business from the 113th Congress, 2 simply to keep the Department of Homeland Security from shutting down, and 1 a 2 –month extension of the Highway Trust Fund
5: Times House GOP voted against a robust long-term transportation and infrastructure bill, paid for, in part, by stopping companies from renouncing their U.S. citizenship to avoid paying fair share of taxes at home (2015 Vote #470; 2015 Vote #450, 2015 Vote #440, 2015 Vote #438, 2015 Vote #4)
235: House Republicans who joined the Trump bandwagon by voting ‘yes' on the Donald Trump Act, legislation to second-guess the decisions made by police chiefs and sheriffs around the country about how best to police their communities and ensure public safety (2015 Vote #466)
At least 18: Times in the 113th & 114th Congresses that Speaker Boehner has made an empty promise to take up immigration reform
ZERO: Immigration reform bills brought to the floor of the House by the Speaker
More than $1 trillion: Amount the deficit is increased by the tax cut bills the GOP has passed out of the House Ways & Means Committee so far this year
100: Percent of House Republicans who voted against bringing up the student loan refinancing bill
7: Times the House GOP has voted in the past 250 days to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act (2015 Vote #14, 2015 Vote #45, 2015 Vote #58, 2015 Vote #142, 2015 Vote #183, 2015 Vote #375, 2015 Vote #376)
60: Times House Republicans have voted to repeal or undermine the ACA since 2011
99: Percent of House Republicans who voted against a measure to ensure that our troops continue to get paid in the event of a Republican government shutdown
241: Republicans who voted against bringing the Help Hire Our Heroes Act – a bill to provide training resources for veterans seeking good-paying jobs – to the floor for a vote
99: Percent of House Republicans who voted to allow predatory lenders on military bases
$251 million: Cut to Amtrak funding passed by House Republican members of the Appropriations Committee one day after a deadly train accident in Philadelphia
100: Percent of Republicans who twicevotedagainst authorizing & funding the Positive Train Control Program which would have prevented the Amtrak derailment, one week after the accident
6: Times GOP voted against bringing a clean bill to fund DHS to a vote even as a shutdown loomed (2015 Vote #34, 2015 Vote #71, 2015 Vote #77, 2015 Vote #86, 2015 Vote #92, 2015 Vote #100)
2.9 million: Number of jobs that would be destroyed under the House GOP FY 2016 Budget
$2,000:The increase in taxes for middle class American families with children greenlighted by the final FY 2016 Republican Budget
$200,000: Average tax break for the wealthiest Americans making $1,000,000 or more greenlighted by the final FY 2016 Republican Budget
$269 billion: Tax breaks over 10 years House Republicans have passed for the wealthiest 0.2 percent of Americans in the country – 5,400 estates a year
99: Percent of House Republicans who voted against allowing a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act – a bill to ensure equal pay for equal work