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Jobs Clock Tick Tocks as Republicans Can’t Find Time for Jobs Bill

House Republicans talk the jobs talk, but they sure aren’t walking the jobs walk. Here we are, 109 days into the 112th Congress, and House Republicans haven’t produced one piece of jobs legislation. This clock will keep on ticking until we see a real jobs bill. (Click here to get the code so you an embed the clock on your web page or FaceBook page.)

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Tell Obama, Senate: We Need Fair Budget, Not Robin Hood in Reverse

It was no surprise when House Republicans stood together last week and used their majority muscle to pass—without a single Democratic vote—their Robin Hood in Reverse budget plan that privatizes Medicare, cuts corporate taxes and taxes for the wealthy, cuts Medicaid funding, repeals health care reform and slashes up to 2 million jobs.

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Tell Lawmakers, ‘Don’t Make Us Work ‘Til We Die’

There is a scary scenario in store if the Republican budget, drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan, is ever implemented. Take a look at this new video from Strengthen Social Security, Don’t Cut It, that takes us to a new dimension where “politicians are cutting our Social Security and Medicare and forcing us work until we die.”

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Republicans Pass ‘Robin Hood in Reverse’ Budget Plan

On a near straight party line vote (235-193) this afternoon, the U.S. House passed the Republican budget plan that privatizes Medicare, cuts corporate taxes and taxes for the wealthy, cuts Medicaid funding repeals health care reform and costs up to 2 million jobs. All Democrats as well as four Republicans voted against the bill. (Get the vote breakdown here.)

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Obama Rejects Radical Republican Fiscal Agenda

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement today on President Obama’s speech on fiscal policy and the federal budget.

Today, President Obama gave a promise to America’s working people that he wouldn’t follow the path of the radical Republican fiscal agenda that leads to lost jobs and a national decline of standards. That commitment is essential at this crucial moment for children, students, seniors and everyone who hopes for a secure economic future.

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Republican 2012 Budget Kills Jobs, Vanishes Government

The closer we examine the House Republican budget plan for 2012 put together by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the worse it looks. Two new analyses show not only would Ryan’s plan to cut Medicaid cost 2 million mostly private-sector jobs, but—and this is scary—if the nation followed Ryan’s budget road map, the federal government would nearly vanish by 2050.

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Republican ‘Path to Prosperity’ Just Another Dead End

The Republican budget plan unveiled yesterday privatizes Medicare, cuts corporate taxes and taxes for the wealthy, cuts Medicaid funding and repeals health care reform. Says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka:

Just as Republican governors and state legislators are assaulting the rights of working Americans under the guise of budget crises…Republican leaders in Congress are using the federal budget to further their own political agendas. Their credo is that tax giveaways to the super rich and Wall Street should be paid for on the backs of working people.

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