Republicans took longest summer recess in decades, finally returned to DC only to not do their jobs
After the Republican-led House took the longest summer recess in recent history, you would think that upon their return to Washington, they’d finally roll up their sleeves and get to work, right? Wrong –House Republicans already frittered away one of just four legislative weeks left before Election Day.
Just to recap — Instead of doing their jobs and fully funding a Zika response, or working on a plan to fund the government, House Republicans:
- blocked a vote on the President’s Zika emergency funding request for the eighth time
- voted for the 25th time against bringing “No Fly, No Buy” to the floor and taking immediate action to make our country safer
- passed a partisan bill that has no chance of passing into law, but puts investors at risk
- refused to answer a letter asking their leadership to denounce the use of materials obtained in a cyberattack for partisan political gain
- watched their nominee for President demonstrate why he is fully unfit to lead during the NBC Commander in Chief Forum
This upcoming week doesn’t look much more promising, with a vote to impeach the IRS commissioner as its central focus.
“House Republicans – clearly seeing the writing on the wall about Donald Trump’s disastrous candidacy – continue to insist that they will run on their records this fall, but are ignoring one key problem: the Republican-led House refuses to do even its most basic jobs,” said Christie Stephenson of the DCCC. “They’ve already wasted one of just four weeks of legislative work left before the Election Day, and voters are still waiting for them to fully fund a Zika response, fund the government, and take action to make sure suspected terrorists can’t buy lethal weapons.”