The least productive Congress ever promised us last year, an Agenda for 2014 -- right after they got back from their least-deserved holiday break ... Tic, Toc.
House GOP 2014 agenda starts with blank slate
by Jake Sherman and John Bresnaham, politico.com -- Nov 17, 2013
Last Thursday [last November], a group of House Republicans filed into Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Capitol office suite and received a blank piece of paper labeled “Agenda 2014.”
The blank slate just about sums up where Republicans find themselves after a year marked by the first government shutdown in 17 years, futile efforts to repeal Obamacare and the inability to pass spending bills at the levels set by Republican leaders.
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Without much fanfare, House Republicans are crafting an election-year agenda that’s meant to target what they believe are the real economic issues facing middle-class Americans --and thereby attract the kind of voters that the GOP and Mitt Romney alienated in 2012. They hope the initiatives will help them hang onto the majority in 2014 and paint a more positive image of the party.
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That some promise there GOP. We can't wait to see what you guys came up, after getting an earful, from all those hometown visits.
"The real economic issues facing middle-class Americans" -- that's some goal!
And what might those middle-class economic issues be, in your shutdown-everything, do-nothing-to-help, government-disdaining worldview?
They're back! AND they have their "2014 Agendas" in tow.
No more "blank sheets" for middle-class Americans -- the GOP has retooled their plan ...
Hill Democrats, Republicans set 2014 agendas with midterm elections in mind
by Joseph Weber, FoxNews.com -- Jan 05, 2014
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On Sunday, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio released a YouTube video in which he challenged “a big-government war on poverty” and announced his coming initiatives to address the issue, including repealing ObamaCare.
“What our nation needs is a real agenda that helps people acquire the skills they need to lift themselves out of poverty and to pursue the American dream,” Rubio says in the video.
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Majority Leader Eric Cantor last week outlined the GOP-led House’s legislative agenda, leading with legislation that addresses the security of personal data for ObamaCare enrollees.
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Yup those are "urgent" economic issues ... that enlargen that
Do Nothing Tent.
Here are a few more:
House's January agenda: 2013 leftovers
by Russell Berman, thehill.com -- Jan 3, 2014
The House plans to spend a chunk of January tending to unfinished business from 2013, completing a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill and approving final legislation governing farm programs and water projects.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) outlined the lower chamber's agenda for the first few weeks of the year in a memo to lawmakers on Friday that was heavy on the familiar GOP themes of targeting ObamaCare, spending reform and curbing environmental regulations.
The schedule for January is likely to be light on major new proposals as House Republicans prepare for their annual policy retreat at the end of the month at a resort in Cambridge, Md., where they hope to formulate an agenda for the remainder of the 2014 election year.
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Better late than never GOP. Don't forget the focus group polls for what middle-class Americans really need, when you head out on that "retreat."
Afterall you will have earn another undeserved-break after you finish doing all this "counting" you're planning on doing ... Phew!
Election year will shape 2014 congressional agenda
by Associated Press; pbs.org/newshour -- Jan 5, 2014
Republicans intend to focus on every facet of President Barack Obama's health care law. They see a political boost in its problem-plagued rollout as the GOP looks to maintain its House majority and seize control of the Democratic-led Senate.
First up in the House, according to Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., is legislation addressing the security of personal data, part of his party's effort "to protect the American people from the harmful effects of Obamacare."
Republicans also promise closer scrutiny of the administration's tally of enrollment numbers in the program.
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That's some Plan GOP. What do you guys call it, when no one's is looking?
Lemme guess -- "Simply MORE of the Same."
Just take the 2013 Agenda, and Recycle it -- because THAT one worked out so productively well. Yeah Right, just keep on stalling and obstructing Gophers, because most middle-class Americans have gotten your number by now ... "ALL Talk, NO Real Action."