Joe Crowley: “We are now more than 275 days into this 112th Congress, and the GOP leadership has put forward zero American jobs bills…”

“We are now more than 275 days into this 112th Congress, and the GOP leadership has put forward zero American jobs bills and outright rejected consideration of President Obama's jobs proposal. So if jobs aren't at the heart of the Republican Tea Party's agenda, what is? Passage of anti-labor legislation to weaken the rights of middle class workers and encourage the shipping of jobs overseas. Check. Passage of anti-middle class legislation to raise taxes on hardworking families. Check. Passage of anti-environment legislation to roll back clean air standards. Check. Passage of anti-education legislation to slash Pell Grants for middle-income students to afford college. Check. And later today, passage of its seventh anti-women's health measure. Today's bill will put the government in the middle of American's health choices and allow hospitals to refuse life-saving treatment to women. Every day it feels more and more like the movie ``Groundhog Day.'' I wake up hoping it will be something different, but it's the same scene played over and over and over. The Republican Tea Party agenda stuck on repeat might satisfy the extreme right wing, but it neither satisfies nor helps hardworking Americans. It is time for the GOP leadership to learn a lesson from ``Groundhog Day''--the only way out of it is to do better. The American people don't want token legislation, extreme partisanship, or sideshow politics. They want real solutions, real jobs, and a real vision.…”