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An editorial in USA Today this morning debunks the GOP talking point repeated this weekend by House Republican Leader John Boehner that the Affordable Care Act will “bankrupt our country” and should be repealed. The editorial points out that health insurance reform… Continue

Congressional Republicans, led by House Republican Leader John Boehner, continue to stand behind a plan proposed by Republican Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin that would eliminate Medicare, privatize and cut Social Security for America’s seniors, and give tax cuts to the wealthiest… Continue

“This is about innovation–innovation that is created here with our creativity and the benefit of our education system and our entrepreneurial spirit and the rest. And then it says when we have the idea and we create the innovation, that we create the jobs here to produce it, to manufacture it and not to scale up overseas.”

House Democrats will continue to work to increase American manufacturing and create new, good-paying American jobs through our ‘Make it in America’ agenda–next week voting on a bill to close tax loopholes that encourage big corporations to ship American jobs overseas. An… Continue

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported we lost 131,000 jobs in July, in large part due to the 143,000 temporary Census workers completing their work. But July marked the seventh straight month of private sector job growth with 71,000 private… Continue

Recent news continues to reveal some signs the economy is on the path to recovery — evidenced by greater than expected gains in U.S. private sector employment and gains the service sector. Private sector jobs increased in July for the sixth straight… Continue

American manufacturing is the largest single contributor the U.S. economy, generating about 12% of our GDP, and is central to our economic recovery. Thanks to the recovery efforts by the Obama Administration and the Democratic-led Congress, America's manufacturing base has grown for… Continue

“Opponents have long called Pelosi ‘bad for business,’ but she’s not the anti-business ideologue of the typical Republican caricature. She regularly seeks out corporate leaders for their take on the economy and talks frequently with Bay Area business titans like Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Her brain trust includes numerous chief executives and venture capitalists. ‘I have found her to be supportive of Silicon Valley and the entire technology industry and always open to a healthy give-and-take on key issues,’ says Cisco Systems (CSCO) CEO John Chambers, who helped Pelosi develop an innovation agenda in 2005 that included a permanent R&D tax credit, education funding, and universal broadband access.”

“Our president came in. He was president maybe two months, three months, by the time we took the vote last year. And the Republicans said they weren’t going to vote for the funding. And so it took all Democratic votes. I persuaded my members to give this president a chance, to give him room in order to have time to implement his plan. And in — and in the course of time — now the Republicans said they would vote for it, it gave my members the freedom to express themselves on the war in Afghanistan.”

This August, Social Security–a bedrock promise Americans have earned with a lifetime of hard work–turns 75. In 2005, President George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans pushed cuts and a risky Social Security privatization scheme. Democrats and the American people said ‘no.’ If… Continue