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Dec 20, 2011
DCCC Chair Steve Israel’s Statement on House Republicans Voting to Block Payroll Tax Cut Extension
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel released the following statement after House Republicans voted to block a bipartisan payroll tax cut extension compromise that overwhelmingly passed the Senate on Saturday. “Right now Americans want two things from their Congress: middle class tax relief and compromise. House Republican partisanship failed on both counts. There is a war within the Republican Caucus and sadly, the victims will be the middle class …
Read More »Dec 19, 2011
DCCC Presses House Republicans To Stop Tea Party Middle Income Tax Increase
The DCCC is today launching automated phone calls, some of which were recorded by James Carville, in the districts of 20 targeted House Republicans demanding they support this bipartisan compromise to protect middle income taxpayers from a $1,000 tax hike rather than protect Big Oil. In addition to the automated calls, the DCCC is launching a new Payroll Tax Action Center, www.stopthemiddleclasstaxincrease.com, live calls, …
Read More »Dec 18, 2011
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel’s Statement on Speaker Boehner Blocking Payroll Tax Cut Extension
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel released the following statement after House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans made clear they will oppose a bipartisan payroll tax cut extension that overwhelmingly passed the Senate on Saturday. "This is a partisan middle class mugging by extreme House Republicans. At a time when hard-working families need every dollar in their pockets, House Republicans and their Tea Party extremists will have mugged …
Read More »Dec 14, 2011
Republican Rob Cornilles Exposed: A Sham Businessman
Republican Tea Party congressional candidate Rob Cornilles is campaigning as a small businessman and “proven job creator” in Oregon’s First District special election, but two investigative reports that surfaced this week show the reality that Rob Cornilles’ sports marketing business is a sham, and his campaign claim that he is a job creator is at best inaccurate. While Cornilles claims his company, GameFace, is one of the …
Read More »Dec 08, 2011
NEW OR-01 AD - Rob Cornilles: The Original Tea Party Candidate
The DCCC just launched a new ad in Oregon's 1st District.
Read More »Nov 30, 2011
House Republican Jobs Agenda: More TV Ads
According to a new Politico story, Congressional Republicans are fearful they’re losing on the jobs message. House Republicans are complaining they “need to do a better job on messaging” their no-jobs agenda and apparently think just doing television ads will solve the jobs problem. But the problem for House Republicans isn’t that they have the wrong message, it’s that Republicans have blocked every effort to create jobs. “House Republicans think the solution to creating jobs is …
Read More »Nov 30, 2011
DCCC Launches New Campaign On Republican Budget Priorities After Super Committee
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today launched a new paid and grassroots “Drive for 25” campaign to hold 30 vulnerable Republicans accountable for forcing the Super Committee to fail by demanding more tax breaks for billionaires while insisting the Medicare guarantee be eliminated. The campaign includes robo calls, live phone calls, online advertising and an online action center where voters can write letters to the editor about …
Read More »Nov 30, 2011
Rob Cornilles: the Wrong Priorities for Oregon
DCCC spokesperson Jennifer Crider released the following statement on Tea Party Republican Rob Cornilles who is running in the OR-01 Special Election: “Rob Cornilles has the wrong priorities. At a time when the country is facing enormous debt, Republicans in Washington should not be extending tax breaks for millionaires and they should not be continuing tax breaks for Big Oil companies. “We need to get the debt under control, …
Read More »Nov 22, 2011
House Republican Thanksgiving List
When House Republicans sit down to their Thanksgiving dinner table this week, they’ll have much to be thankful for. Here are a dozen things House Republicans can be most thankful for. 1) Turning Medicare into vouchers got them on TLC’s Extreme Couponing 2) “Some random person” named Grover. No, not the Muppet 3) Special interests rewarding them for protecting corporate tax breaks, like that personal jet exception …
Read More »Nov 10, 2011
Drive for 25: I’m Running for Congress (VIDEO)
A goal-shattering 107 Democratic House candidates are ready to take the fight to Republicans in Congress, and numerous public opinion polls show voters prefer Democratic candidates over Republicans. Tea Party Republicans have clearly worn out their welcome with the American people and buyer’s remorse has taken a firm hold of voters. Meet some of our top-tier candidates:
Read More »Nov 08, 2011
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel’s Statement on Ohio Issue 2 Ballot Initiative
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel released the following statement about voters defeating Ohio’s Issue 2 ballot initiative. “This is a triumph for working families in Ohio and across the country. Hardworking working men and women built this country and are key to re-igniting the American dream -- today is a victory for them. “Teachers, police officers, firefighters, public employees and working families all across Ohio stood together against Ohio …
Read More »Nov 08, 2011
FACT CHECK: Speaker Boehner Falsely Claims Republicans Economic Proposals Will Create Jobs
On ABC This Week, House Speaker John Boehner falsely claimed Republicans have a plan that will create jobs. He said, “My focus is on the Congress of the United States and trying to get our economy going again and producing jobs. That’s my focus.” In reality, House Republicans led by Speaker Boehner have failed to pass a single bill that would produce jobs. Former John McCain economic advisor …
Read More »Nov 04, 2011
One Year to Election Day: DCCC Launches “Drive for 25” Radio Ad To Hold Republicans Accountable
Listen to one of our latest radio ads: One year from the 2012 election and with the House in play, the DCCC today launched a new, aggressive paid and grassroots “Drive for 25” radio campaign to hold 25 targeted Republicans accountable for protecting special interests instead of the middle class and for the ethics issues that plague an increasing number of House Republicans. The radio ads begin airing on Monday. As …
Read More »Nov 02, 2011
Speaker Boehner Welcomes Campaign Cash from Nazi Enthusiast
According to a new report by the Washington Jewish Week, Speaker John Boehner accepted nearly the maximum campaign contribution from Rich Iott, a Nazi enthusiast who even other House Republicans had to disavow when he ran for Congress. Last year it came out that Iott, then-candidate for Ohio’s 9th district, wore a German SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments of the 5th SS Panzer Division through the group Wiking. “House …
Read More »Nov 02, 2011
New poll: Democrats lead generic ballot, again
In today’s newly released Quinnipiac University poll, voters prefer a Democratic candidate over a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in 2012 by a 8 point margin (42 percent to 34 percent). This continues a trend from recent weeks where voters want to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives next November. A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows voters would support a Democratic candidate over a Republican candidate in their district by 8 points (48 percent – …
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