{"id":8537,"date":"2012-08-03T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2012-08-03T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:48:50","slug":"what-congress-didnt-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/what-congress-didnt-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Congress Didn’t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are witnessing the worst Congress in history, because Republicans are intentionally sabotaging America in hopes of seizing power.  With so many pressing needs facing our nation, House Republicans adjourned and went on vacation, despite objections from House and Senate Democrats, leaving their work undone.  This Congress is most notable for what they didn\u2019t do, not what they did, although what they did was horrific in it\u2019s own right.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3Congress\"Major bills that Congress has left unfinished as it prepares to leave at the end of the week for its August recess:<\/p>\n

FARM AND FOOD PROGRAMS:<\/h6>\n

The Senate in June and the House Agriculture Committee in July passed similar bills to set agriculture subsidy and conservation policy and spend almost $100 billion a year over the next five years for farm and nutrition programs\u2026<\/p>\n

POSTAL SERVICE OVERHAUL:<\/h6>\n

The U.S. Postal Service at midnight Wednesday will default on $5.5 billion in scheduled payments to the Treasury for future retiree health care benefits as it waits for Congress to come up with a plan to help it regain fiscal solvency\u2026<\/p>\n

CYBERSECURITY:<\/h6>\n

Senators this week took up legislation to protect the U.S. electrical grid and other critical industries from cyberattacks and electronic espionage, but it is doubtful they will finish before leaving for the recess…<\/p>\n

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT:<\/h6>\n

House Speaker John Boehner on Monday named lawmakers to negotiate with the Senate on a compromise bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act for five years, but progress on the bill remained elusive four months after the Senate reauthorized the act on a bipartisan vote…<\/p>\n

RUSSIA TRADE:<\/h6>\n

Both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have approved bills to end Cold War restrictions and extend permanent normal trade relations to Russia…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have given you the headers and the first sentence from each area, but this article contains a lot more valuable information.  I recommend that you click through fore the rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

What House Republicans didn\u2019t do is far more important than anything they did. <\/font>Rachel Maddow and Eugene Robinson covered this topic, while explaining some of the hateful activities House Republicans have done to fill the calendar.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of anything to benefit America, Republicans only pursued their wars on women, unions, Latinos, gays and all the other groups Republicans so love to hate.<\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/b>Jobs Jobs Jobs<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/b>!<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/font><\/h3>\n

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We are witnessing the worst Congress in history, because Republicans are intentionally sabotaging America in hopes of seizing power.  With so many pressing needs facing our nation, House Republicans adjourned and went on vacation, despite objections from House and Senate Democrats, leaving their work undone.  This Congress is most notable for what they didn\u2019t do, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}