Issue Reports

Eight years ago, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and House Democrats created the Make It In America plan to encourage private sector job creation here in the Untied States.

Yesterday, the world witnessed the President of the United States side with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin over America’s intelligence community, which has confirmed that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections.

This morning, Speaker Ryan and House Republicans unveiled their latest attempt to sell the American people on the idea that they are “better off now.”

Today, Speaker Ryan announced that Republicans will take action to end family separation. To be clear, this crisis is a direct result of President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy that is criminalizing what used to be a misdemeanor offense, putting people in jail and separating them from their children.

After Republicans were unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump promised to dismantle the law and has taken unprecedented steps to sabotage it.

Once again, Republicans are front-loading the FY 2019 appropriations process to spend more on their priorities while failing to fully fund America’s priorities.

Instead of working in a bipartisan fashion to support America’s farmers and address food insecurity, House Republicans have once again written a deeply flawed, unpopular Farm Bill that cuts vital nutrition assistance programs that keep 40 million Americans from going hungry; fails to support economic opportunity for rural America; and weakens environmental protections.

Last week, 245 House Democrats and Republicans joined together in an effort to allow consideration of four separate measures to address the DACA crisis created by President Trump. This effort, led by Reps. Jeff Denham and Pete Aguilar, would allow debate and votes on four bills: Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s proposal, the bipartisan Dream Act, the bipartisan USA Act, and a bill offered by Speaker Ryan.

Just months after jamming their tax scam law through Congress that adds $1.8 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years and failing to offer a budget that balances, Congressional Republicans are bringing a hypocritical Balanced Budget Amendment to the Floor as a cover up for their fiscal failures.

The GOP tax scam, jammed through Congress in under two months by Republicans, with no public hearings and limited review, stacks the deck against America’s middle-class families while giving enormous tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy.

Just two months after the GOP tax scam was jammed through Congress, companies are already seeing billions of dollars in profits - and sharing them with their wealthy investors - while most middle class Americans aren’t seeing any real benefit to them.