The Gavel

Today, Congressional Democrats stood in strong support of raising the minimum wage to $12 – unveiling new legislation that puts more money in the pockets of millions of hard-working American families.  While Republicans continue to hand billions in tax breaks to the… Continue

Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans announced their “Work Harder for Less” budget conference agreement yesterday.  It’s been a week for them.  Secret negotiations to pulling bills off the Floor.  Budget “gimmick” concerns to targeting the Affordable Care Act while jeopardizing the coverage… Continue

Speaker Boehner may have come a long way since the time he declared he “didn’t know” about the economic impact of the Ex-Im Bank, but his remarks drew a deep contrast to what Leader McCarthy and Whip Scalise have been saying this… Continue

Last night, 30 House Republicans voted against an amendment offered by Rep. Tammy Duckworth to strip a provision from the NDAA that would have blocked predatory lending protections for American servicemembers and their families.

House GOP Majority Leader McCarthy and House Republicans have been bragging about apparently beginning the appropriations process “the earliest since 1974.” Spoiler alert.  POLITICO – House yanks first spending bill off the floor House Republicans on Wednesday night abruptly pulled their first spending… Continue

Last week, House Republicans overwhelmingly voted to allow predatory lenders on military bases, and those convicted of fraud against our nation’s troops, to serve on advisory boards for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  They voted against an amendment to block these criminals… Continue

Ahead of their House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on “birthright citizenship,” meet the extremists, far-right supposed ‘witnesses’ House Republicans have willfully invited to testify before the panel.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is all in for killing the Export-Import Bank and risking the jobs of hard-working Americans.

There is never a right time to destroy American jobs.

There is a growing chorus of opposition to H.R. 1195, the latest House GOP attempt to undermine the CFPB which protects hard-working American consumers.