Kirk Watson: “It is becoming an election year tradition: House Republicans bringing up hot-button issues that have absolutely no…”

“It is becoming an election year tradition: House Republicans bringing up hot-button issues that have absolutely no chance of ever becoming law. This week, House Republicans will use pledge protection and gay marriage as a means to distract and divide our Nation. Are these really the priorities of the Republican majority when we have a hot spot virtually spinning out of control in the Middle East? The truth is this is nothing but an attempt to turn attention away from their failures over the last year on the issues that are the most important to the majority of the American people. Republicans have failed to join us in increasing the minimum wage, they have yet to provide any relief to the American consumer at the gas pump, they continue to stall negotiations on comprehensive border security and immigration reform, and they have allowed the issue of lobbying reform to fall off the legislative agenda after all of the lobbying corruption we have witnessed over the last year from the other side of the aisle. ____________________”