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Rep. Rodney Davis knew that the GOP tax scam was going to hammer students in his district and increase the cost of college, but he voted for it anyway to deliver a tax break to millionaires and big corporations. Here are just a few ways the GOP tax scam is going to hurt students, graduates, […]

Today Congressman Curbelo went chasing headlines and refused to support a budget deal that did not find a solution for DREAMers. That’s nice, but here’s the catch: Congressman Curbelo has repeatedly refused to support the DREAM Act, a bipartisan bill with 200 cosponsors, including his immediate neighbor, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. If Curbelo is truly looking for a solution […]

DREAM Act opponent Darrell Issa is at it again, attacking DREAMers and their families. This time it was during an interview where he once again said that he would not support the bipartisan DREAM Act because “it goes too far” and then bizarrely blamed DACA recipients’ parents by suggesting they were the “victimizers” of their […]

Today, Rep. Diaz-Balart voted with Speaker Ryan and the Establishment Republican Congress to hike taxes on the middle class so that they can hand out huge tax cuts to large corporations and the very wealthy. The Republican Tax Scam eliminates popular middle class deductions for state and local taxes, medical expenses, and student loans while slashing […]

Today, the Cook Political Report moved the race for Illinois-06 to a Toss-Up in its ratings of the 2018 elections. In their assessment of the race, the Cook Political Report notes that Rep. Peter Roskam has been a Republican “party loyalist” who represents a district that is moving away from him and his record of […]

Given the serious allegations reported by Politico earlier this week that Republican Rep. Carlos Cureblo has been privately discouraging his Republican colleagues from supporting the bipartisan DREAM Act, the DCCC launched a Spanish-language digital ad campaign targeting Hispanic voters in Florida’s 26th Congressional District. Voters in Curbelo’s district who’ve set their Facebook language preferences to […]

On the heels of Democratic wins across the state with Albuquerque’s mayoral and city council flip and sweeping municipal races in Las Cruces, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is partnering with the Democratic Party of New Mexico to put boots on the ground ahead of the 2018 midterm election. The full-time, local grassroots organizer […]

DCCC has outraised the NRCC six months in a row as Republican retirements stack up In October, the DCCC outraised the NRCC $7.7M to $4.5M respectively for a huge difference of $3.2M in just the span of one month. This is the sixth month in a row that Democrats have outraised Republicans, indicating a huge […]

Washington Republicans voted along party lines today to approve Rep. Peter Roskam’s tax plan to hike taxes on middle class families and homeowners in Chicagoland while giving a big break to big corporations and the richest one percent. We’ve already said a lot about just how bad Rep. Peter Roskam’s tax plan is for Chicagoland, […]

Today, Rep. John Faso’s Establishment Republican Congress voted to hike taxes on the middle class so that they can hand out huge tax cuts to large corporations and the very wealthy. The Republican Tax Scam eliminates popular middle class deductions for state and local taxes, medical expenses, and student loans while slashing taxes for the […]