On the final day of the House's recent session before taking a five week summer recess, Republicans voted for a 40th time to repeal ObamaCare. An act that will serve no purpose, as the Senate has no intention of voting on such a repeal.
That in mind, Geoffrey Cowley at MSNBC has thought up some issues the House COULD have taken up to make lives for American better. Here's just a few:
- Pass the American Jobs Act
- Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act
- Pass a Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act
- Repeal tax breaks for outsourcing jobs
- Create tax incentives for insourcing jobs
- Update and strengthen the Voting Rights Act
- Revive the 2010 DISCLOSE Act to shed light on corporate money in politics
- Reduce tax breaks for oil companies
- Increase support for sustainable clean energy
- Pass an immigration bill
- Institute universal background checks for gun sales
- Institute universal pre-K education
- Restore the 1.6 million jobs being lost to sequestration
- Renovate the U.S. Postal Service
- Restore the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps)
- Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
- Ban racial profiling by police departments
- Address the backlog on VA benefits
- Expand the Affordable Care Act to cover all legal U.S. residents
Head over to Geoffrey's article for more ways the House could have done the people's work.
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