Blogs

1Nov

Nonpartisan Study: No Proof That Tax Cuts For Wealthy Lead To Economic Growth

In a rebuke to long-held Republican economic theory, a nonpartisan report has found that there is no evidence that tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires leads to improved economic growth.

21Sep

Republicans: We’ll Be Open to Revenues after Election

WaPo: 'GOP Retreat On Taxes Likely If Obama Wins'

21Sep

House GOP Heads for Exits, Leaving Farm Bill ‘To Die On Vine’

GOP Lawmakers Take More Hits At Home After Boehner Pulls Plug On Key Priority

18Sep

Across Country, House GOP Feels Heat over Stalled Farm Bill

The House GOP is still in chaos and home-state papers are paying attention.

12Sep

House GOP Leaders Face Mutiny Over Stalled Farm Bill

'Intra-party war' ensues as deadline looms for action on farm bil.

31Aug

Ryan Budget Would Have Axed Hurricane Relief

AP: Ryan 'Tried To Gut' Disaster Aid Program That Gulf Coast May Need Following Hurricane Isaac

3Aug

Do-Nothing House Heads Home Without Enacting Key Senate Bills

Congress should be doing all that it can to help create jobs, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and take on America's challenges. Senate Democrats have succeeded in passing bill after bill that would cut taxes for the middle class and strengthen the economy. Rather than doing its part, the Republican House has gone on summer vacation, stranding Senate bills and leaving the American people in the lurch.

2Aug

Headaches Loom For Senate GOP As Tea Party Takeover Squeezes Out Moderates

Tea Party newcomers plan to push Congress further away from compromise.

1Aug

Party Split Causes House GOP To Abandon U.S. Farmers

Boehner Calls Off Vote On One-Year Farm Bill After Another GOP Mutiny.

1Aug

Shot/Chaser: Republican Leadership has "Fingerprints All Over" Defense Cuts

Sen. Lindsay Graham On Fox News: "My Party Has Their Fingerprints All Over It," "It Was The Republican Leadership Who Agreed With The Concept"

30Jul

GOP Architects Of Automatic Defense Cuts Are Now Trying To Wiggle Out Of Them

Republicans Chose to Cut Defense Rather Than Cut Millionaire Tax Breaks

17Jul

The Republican 180 Degree Reversal on Disclosure

This week, every Republican in the Senate voted against the DISCLOSE Act that would simply require outside groups to disclose who funds their political activities. Republicans have long supported disclosure of campaign contributions.

12Jul

Does Mitch McConnell Want To Vote on President Obama’s Tax Cut Proposal Or Not?

Senator Reid offered the vote on the President's tax cuts Senator McConnell asked for.

10Jul

Report: Democrats' Small Business Tax Cuts Would Create Nearly One Million Jobs

Democrats have cut taxes on small business 18 times under President Obama, and are working to pass the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act. A new, nonpartisan analysis has determined that the bill would create nearly one million jobs.

28Jun

What A Difference A Day Makes

YESTERDAY: Boehner: "House Republicans are Going to Continue to Stay Focused on Jobs and the Economy." TODAY: Boehner: "We're Going to Work Every Single Day Between Now and Election Day" To Repeal the Affordable Care Act.

21Jun

Republican Tax Plan Would Hike Middle Class Taxes to Pay for Millionaire Cuts

Republicans have claimed that their tax plan would renew the expiring Bush tax cuts and reduce tax rates even further without increasing the deficit, all by getting rid of unspecified "loopholes" in the tax code. A new analysis by the JEC shows that Republican math simply doesn't add up.