The Gavel

Speaker Boehner and House Republicans have had three opportunities in recent months to renew the job-creating Export-Import Bank.  Today on the House floor, Democrats will offer Republicans another, final chance to do the right thing and renew the charter for the job-creating,… Continue

Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans continue to do nothing to address the harmful sequester but move forward with their partisan budget gimmicks in the Defense Appropriations process…

Four legislative days remain until the job-creating, small business supporting Export-Import Bank expires, and according to Roll Call, Speaker Boehner and House Republicans are on track to do just that: House Poised to Let Ex-Im Bank Charter Expire …there’s one thing the… Continue

Speaker Boehner and the House Republican Conference this week took another crack at undermining, dismantling and repealing the Affordable Care Act for the 59th and 60th time.  Here’s what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had to tell them today about their obstructive… Continue

When Speaker Boehner and House Republicans recently punted the Highway Trust Fund, groups representing industry and thousands of workers from across the country warned of the short-term patches and urged the dysfunctional Republican Congress to provide long-term certainty for our crumbling infrastructure.

If Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans fail to prevent a shutdown of the job-creating Export-Import Bank in less than 5 legislative days, one CEO of a major Fortune 500 company said it would be an “economic catastrophe.”

House Republicans are set to pass a FY 2016 Defense of Defense Appropriations bill that fails to deal with dire impact of the sequester, including the significant cuts it brings to domestic spending.

With just 10 legislative days before the Export-Import Banks expires – not a moment too soon for House Republicans’ anti-Ex-Im Bank Financial Services Chairman Hensarling  – businesses across the country are highlighting the grave economic impact if Republicans shut down the Ex-Im… Continue

Speaker Boehner and House Republicans like to rhetorically ask “Where are the jobs?” …they are right here.

Here’s the bottom line: back in 2012, 147 House Republicans, including then Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, joined Democrats in overwhelmingly renewing the Export-Import Bank.