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GOP Summer Break: While Americans Ask for Jobs, Republicans Ignore Jobs, Push Partisan Bills that Hurt Economy

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May 30, 2012

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Inhofe to House GOP: Compromise

It is a rare day when we here in the Democratic Whip Press shop implore Republicans to heed the advice of conservative Senator James Inhofe. But as the impasse over the highway bill drags on, stranger things have happened. To recap how we got here: The Senate passed a bipartisan bill with an overwhelming 74 votes, while House Republicans floundered for months, unable to pass anything beyond a short term extension that needed significant Democratic support to pass.

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Hoyer Statement on Motion to Go to Conference On a Highway Bill

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April 25, 2012

Contact:

Daniel Reilly, 202-225-3130

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A Choice of Two Futures: A Look at How the Republican Budget Ends Medicare, Destroys Jobs, Benefits the Wealthy

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March 27, 2012

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Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference on Bipartisan Senate Highway Bill

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March 22, 2012

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Maureen Beach, 202-225-3130

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A Choice of Two Futures: What Would You Choose?

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March 21, 2012

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Katie Grant, Daniel Reilly, 202-225-3130

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Hoyer Statement on Passage of Senate Transportation Bill

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March 14, 2012

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Katie Grant, 202-225-3130

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CAP: Meeting the Infrastructure Imperative

External URL: 
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/02/infrastructure.html
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Note to "Scrambling" Boehner: It's the Policy, Not the Process on Highway Bill

Just a quick note for Speaker Boehner: When it comes to your behemoth of a highway bill, the problem is your policies, not the process. Republicans are scrambling to split the bill into parts to make it more palatable to Republicans already skeptical of the measure, but that won’t change the fact that the bill destroys 550,000 jobs, bankrupts the highway trust fund by 2016 and leaves our roads and bridges woefully underfunded.

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Suggested Questions for Boehner Press Conference

With Speaker Boehner and Reps. Mica and Hastings set to discuss a long-term surface transportation bill at a press conference this morning, we here in the Democratic Whip Press Shop wanted to offer up a few suggested questions to pose for the lawmakers:

1.) After 11 months in the majority, why have Republicans still not come up with a comprehensive jobs plan?

2.) If Republicans are focused on infrastructure as you claim, why did Senate Republicans block a bill that contained provisions of the American Jobs Act that would have invested in infrastructure and created jobs?

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