Category: Budget Talks
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These House Members Didn\’t \’Embrace The Suck\’; They Embraced the Jobless
Thirty-two Democrats opted to put principle before the political expediency of compromise for compromise\’s sake. \”Congress shouldn’t be patting ourselves on the back just because we didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot.\”
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Tell Congress: Don\’t Go Home Without Extending Jobless Benefits
We have been calling on our supporters to flood their members of Congress today with this simple statement: \”A budget deal that abandons the unemployed is no deal at all.\”
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Ryan Gets 700,000 \’No\’ Votes on Social Security Cuts
We helped deliver a petition to House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan signed by more than 700,000 people calling for \”no grand bargain in exchange for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts.\”