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114th Congress

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1100 Longworth House Office Building

September 29, 2015
Blog
This morning, the Ways and Means Committee is marking up budget reconciliation bills that amount to the 61st vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bills are part of the GOP effort to appeal to extremists in the party in order to avoid a #GOPShutdown.
Issues:Affordable Care Act

The Social Security Earned Benefits Payment Act, introduced by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), would ensure Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits will not have their benefits unnecessarily cut at the end of 2016 by temporarily adjusting the distribution of incoming payroll


September 28, 2015
Op-Ed

The Republican majority in Congress has said that the inability to govern is following the same failed strategy time and again. Yet, once again House Republicans are putting the full faith and credit of the United States at risk. Their repeated behavior is reckless and irresponsible, and has had real consequences.

Issues:Debt Limit