The First 450 Days of the Republican Congress: By the Numbers
450: Days since the start of this Republican Congress as of March 30
Only 193: Days the GOP House has been in session, including 32 pro-forma days in which the House gaveled in & out in a matter of minutes & no legislative business was completed
2016: Speaker Ryan dubbed it the "Year of Ideas," but the Associated Press says the "House floor has largely been turned over to the obscure and the arcane. Instead of wrapping up a typical day's work at suppertime, early afternoon getaways are the norm."
$6 Trillion: Proposed cuts to key initiatives like Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps in House Republican Leaders' first attempt at a FY2017 budget blueprint.
40: Consecutive years, up until this year, that the House Budget Committee has held a hearing on the President's budget with a high-level OMB witness – since passage of the Congressional Budget Act in 1974.
ZERO: Hearings held or planned this year by the House Budget Committee on the President's FY 2017 budget – an unprecedented breach of protocol.
11: Times House Republicans voted against closing the terrorist gun loophole and preventing people on the terrorist watchlist from buying firearms (2016 Vote #36, 2016 Vote #21, 2016 Vote #4, 2016 Vote #2, 2015 Vote #690, 2015 Vote #688, 2015 Vote #685, 2015 Vote #682, 2015 Vote #666, 2015 Vote #653, 2015 Vote #646)
ZERO: Republicans who have signed the discharge petition to force a vote on H.R. 1076, Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act
244: Number of House Republicans who voted to block debate on bipartisan legislation to keep Americans safe with commonsense, comprehensive background checks to curb gun violence
4: Number of times House Republicans voted against lifting the unconscionable 19-year-long ban on federal research on gun violence (2016 Vote #77, 2016 Vote #65, 2016 Vote #55, 2016 Vote #48)
99: Percent of House Republicans who voted against ensuring that research that increases our understanding of the causes and prevention of gun violence is eligible for NSF grants
100: Percent of House Republicans who voted against protecting LGBT federal contractors from workplace discrimination because of who they are or who they love
100:Percent of House Republicans who voted against allowing a vote to let American workers earn just seven job-protected sick days each year
241: Number of House Republicans who voted against allowing the House to even debate the Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would protect Americans' most sacred right – the right to vote – by strengthening and restoring the Voting Rights Act
9: Number of House Republicans who voted against naming a post-office for African-American poet Dr. Maya Angelou
100: Percent of House Republicans who voted against ensuring companies that use chemical substances or mixtures that can seep into the public water system provide state and federal agencies with data on how those chemicals could affect human health and the environment.
More than $6.2 million: Taxpayer dollars squandered so far during the House Republicans' politically-motivated Benghazi Select Committee
667: Days the Benghazi Select Committee has been ‘investigating' which is longer than the investigations of Pearl Harbor, Kennedy assassination, Iran-Contra, and Hurricane Katrina
4: Number of hearings aforementioned Benghazi Select Committee has held since it was established in 2014
167: House Republicans who voted against a bipartisan budget agreement and NOT to uphold the full faith and credit of the United States on October 28, 2015
151: House Republicans who voted to shut down the federal government on September 30, 2015
235: House 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
100: Percent of House Republicans who voted against affirming climate change is real and that we must invest in a strong, sustainable energy future for our children
64:House Republicans who voted against the long overdue rewrite of No Child Left Behind because it continued the civil rights legacy of public education in targeting federal spending to schools and districts with the highest concentration of low-income students
12: Times House Republicans have voted for bills attacking women's health care so far this Congress. (2016 Vote #53, 2016 Vote #6, 2015 Vote #568, 2015 Vote #538, 2015 Vote #527, 2015 Vote #524, 2015 Vote #506, 2015 Vote #505, 2015 Vote #223, 2015 Vote #194, 2015 Vote #93, 2015 Vote #45)
100:Percent of House Republicans who voted against allowing a vote to protect women's right to demand equal pay 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
ZERO: Comprehensive immigration reform bills brought to the floor by House Republican leaders this Congress
4: Times House Republicans have voted in support of the Confederate Battle Flag (2015 Vote #429, 2015 Vote #426, 2015 Vote #425, 2015 Vote #385)
257: Days House Republicans have refused to vote on a resolution offered by Rep. Bennie Thompson to remove the Mississippi state flag from the House areas of the U.S. Capitol because it contains the Confederate Battle Flag
51: Closed rules so far in this Republican Congress that limit debate and forbid amendments to bills when they are considered on the floor
48: Closed rules in the first session of 114th Congress alone making it the Most Closed Session of Congress in history
10: Times the House GOP has voted so far this Congress to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act (2016 Vote #53, 2016 Vote #6, 2015 Vote #568, 2015 Vote #376, 2015 Vote #375, 2015 Vote #183, 2015 Vote #142, 2015 Vote #58, 2015 Vote #45, 2015 Vote #14)
63: Times House Republicans have voted to repeal or undermine the ACA since 2011
100:Percent of House Republicans who voted against bringing up the student loan refinancing bill
241: Republicans voted against protecting America's servicemembers and veterans from unscrupulous mortgage lenders' dishonest financial practices
99: Percent of House Republicans who voted to allow predatory lenders on military bases
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
100: Percent of House Republicans who voted to block measures to bring transparency to the unprecedented outside spending in our elections
79: Days House Republicans let key components of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act – which provides health care to the heroes of 9/11 – lapse
95: Percent of Committees in the Republican Congress chaired by men
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 their fair share of taxes at home (2015 Vote #470; 2015 Vote #450, 2015 Vote #440, 2015 Vote #438, 2015 Vote #4)
$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 the Department of Homeland Security to a vote even as a shutdown loomed (2015 Vote #100, 2015 Vote #92, 2015 Vote #86, 2015 Vote #77, 2015 Vote #71, 2015 Vote #34)
1.5 million: Number of private-sector jobs created or sustained by Export-Import Bank since 2007
128: Days House Republicans let the charter for the EX-IM Bank lapse, killing jobs and undermining economic growth, before finally passing a House transportation bill that included an EX-IM Bank reauthorization
8: Times House Republicans voted against renewing the job-creating Export-Import Bank (2015 Vote #529, 2015 Vote #521, 2015 Vote #497, 2015 Vote #483, 2015 Vote #379, 2015 Vote #371, 2015 Vote #126, 2015 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
$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