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With Chris Christie and Rand Paul pandering to the extreme anti-vaccination crowd, it is time for Congressman Dan Benishek, a licensed medical doctor, to stand up for public health and refute their comments. “Republicans have established quite the reputation of turning a blind eye to proven scientific fact, and Congressman Dan Benishek’s silence on vaccinations […]

“Today, House Republicans continues their Bill Murray-like quest of forcing history to repeat itself for the 55th time, as they begin debate on their dead-on-arrival repeal and replacement ACA bill.  Republicans have been undeterred by the millions of Americans who now have access to quality and affordable healthcare, and are just trying to placate their […]

January 2011: House Republicans Take Control of Congress, Take 1st Repeal Vote June 2012: SCOTUS Declares ACA Law of the Land, House Republicans Still Vote to Repeal it January 2013: House Republicans Begin 113th Congress with Repeal vote, Déjà vu All Over again October 2013: Republicans Vote to Shutdown the Government over ACA, Put Economy […]

On NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, Congressman Paul Ryan was confronted with his failed economic predictions and, in response, doubled down on the same policies that lost him the election in 2012. “As our economy continues to get stronger, it’s sad and troubling that Paul Ryan would want to return to the same failed […]

We couldn’t make this up. The first hearing in the new Republican Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act is scheduled for Monday, February 2nd, according to the House Rules Committee.  Monday, February 2, is Groundhog Day. Republicans in Congress have voted 54 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act – appeasing their tea party base […]

Today, Congressman Cresent Hardy’s favorite failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced his intentions to forgo a third campaign.  Some would argue that Romney’s explosive comments that 47-percent of Americans who paid no income taxes are dependent on government welfare cost him the 2012 election, but Hardy enthusiastically embraced that sentiment. “Congressman Cresent Hardy is surely […]

Desperate to play 2016 Republican kingmaker, Congressman Rod Blum just complained about Republican candidate Mitt Romney not spending enough time courting him after he has done campaign events with fringe figure Rand Paul and bragged about spending time with embattled Governor Rick Perry. Blum complained to  The Hill “…Romney is one of the few candidates he hasn’t heard […]

DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján announced today the DCCC’s Member leadership on Finance and Mobilization to carry the Committee through the 2016 election cycle.  Representative Chris Van Hollen leads as National Finance Chair and Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn leads as National Mobilization Chair.  Van Hollen is a former Chair of the DCCC and current […]

Speaker John Boehner told his Republican Congress today that they are finalizing a plan to sue President Obama over his executive actions on immigration. Republicans in Congress are also holding up reauthorization of the Homeland Security budget unless they can overturn the Obama order which would restart deportation of Dream Act eligible kids. “House Republicans […]

Last night, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Congressman Cresent Hardy, who campaigned on an anti-education platform, criticized the president’s plan to make community college free for every responsible student. According to the newspaper, “[Hardy] dismissed the president’s calls for free community college and more liberal employee paid sick leave as examples of ‘top-down politics.’ […]