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THE FIRST 300 DAYS OF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS: BY THE NUMBERS

November 4, 2015
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300: November 1st is the 300th day of the 114th Congress

137: Days the GOP House has been in session, including 27 pro-forma days in which the House gaveled in & out in a matter of minutes & no legislative business was completed

151: Republicans who voted to shut down the federal government on September 30, 2015.

167: Republicans who voted against the bipartisan budget agreement and NOT to uphold the full faith and credit of the United States on October 28, 2015.

235: Republicans who voted to Pay China first – before our troops & disabled veterans – in the event Republicans were to cause the first-ever default on our nation's debt

4: Times House Republicans have voted in support of the Confederate Battle Flag (Vote #429, Vote #426, Vote #425, Vote #385)

1.5 million: Number of private-sector jobs created or sustained by Export-Import Bank since 2007

119: Days House Republicans let the charter for the Ex-Im Bank lapse before finally passing a House bill to reauthorize the bank.

8: Times House Republicans voted against renewing the job-creating Export-Import Bank (Vote #529, Vote #521, Vote #497, Vote #483, Vote #379, Vote #371, Vote #126, Vote #116)

218: Total number of Democrats and Republicans who signed a discharge petition forcing a vote to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank

313: Number of Democrats and Republicans who voted YEA on passing the Kirk-Heitkamp bill to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank, after the House GOP Leadership spent months blocking this legislation from getting to the Floor

Only 73 - Bills passed by Congress & signed into law, including 61 noncontroversial, modest suspension bills, 2 unfinished business from the 113th Congress, 2 simply to keep the Department of Homeland Security from shutting down, and 2 very short-term extensions 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 (Vote #470; Vote #450, Vote #440, Vote #438, Vote #4)

Nearly $5 million: Taxpayer dollars squandered so far during the House Republicans' 16-month-long politically-motivated Benghazi Select Committee.

4: Number of hearings aforementioned Benghazi Select Committee has held since inception

9: Times House Republicans have voted for bills attacking women's health care so far this year. (Vote #568, Vote #528, Vote #524, Vote #506, Vote #505, Vote #223, Vote #194, Vote #93, Vote #45)

100: Percent of House Republicans who voted against allowing a vote to protect women's right to demand equal wages for equal work.

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 (Vote #466)

At least 18: Times in the 113th & 114th Congresses that then-Speaker Boehner made an empty promise to take up immigration reform

At least 3: Times in the first few days of leading the House that current Speaker Paul Ryan has refused to bring immigration reform to the floor for a vote.

ZERO: Comprehensive immigration reform bills brought to the floor by House Republican leaders this Congress

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

8: Times the House GOP has voted in the past 300 days to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act (Vote #14, Vote #45, Vote #58, Vote #142, Vote #183, Vote #375, Vote #376, Vote #568)

61: Times House Republicans have voted to repeal or undermine the ACA since 2011

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

6: Times GOP voted against bringing a clean bill to fund DHS to a vote even as a shutdown loomed (Vote #34, Vote #71, Vote #77, Vote #86, Vote #92, 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