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The economic recession has been particularly hard on lower and middle income families, but over the last month this House has passed important legislation that will make a real difference in their lives.
As the first quarter of 2008 ended last week, it was clear that things are not getting any better for American families struggling to make ends meet. Americans continue to face higher costs for basic necessities, millions of families have lost their homes due to the troubled real estate market and 7 million more Americans are uninsured.
With bleak news about the economy continuing to mount, it is no surprise that 25 percent of Americans say their economic situation has not improved in the last five years and 31 percent say they have fallen backward. These represent the highest numbers for the Pew Research Center survey since the question was first asked in 1964.
Last Friday President Bush traveled to New Jersey to encourage residents to seek free credit counseling if they face the threat of losing their homes. While the credit counseling is good advice, the president's actions are simply too little, too late.
The White House and Congressional Republicans continue to play games with our nation's national security. Rather than working with us to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Republicans insist that this House simply rubberstamp a bill that passed the Senate earlier this year.
President Bush and Congressional Republicans are playing politics with our national security.
After slowing down the process of withholding key documents in the Senate, President Bush and Congressional Republicans are demanding the House take immediate action on a Senate FISA bill that just passed the Senate yesterday.
One of the best ways to expand prosperity to more Americans is to make college more affordable.
Today, an education at a private university is close to $50-thousand a year. And things aren't much better at public universities, where prices have shot up 40-percent above inflation in the last seven years alone.
At the beginning of this year the new Democratic Congress proposed a 2008 budget that was both fiscally responsible and reinvested in long forgotten domestic priorities.
Last week this House passed a final veterans funding bill that provides the largest investment in veterans health care in the 77-year history of the V-A. Congress initially passed this legislation over the opposition of President Bush and his administration.
2007 has been the deadliest year for American troops in Iraq. There is no doubt that a change of direction is needed, but President Bush refuses to change course. He envisions a world where our troops will still be on the ground in Iraq ten years from now.