CPC Co-Chairs Stand Against Another GOP Assault on the Middle Class
November 30, 2011
Today's Republican scheme to weaken America's middle class would undermine and delay workers' ability to exercise their right to form a union.
CPC Co-Chairs Plan Deficit Reduction and Job Creation Proposal After Super Committee Failure
November 21, 2011
Instead of focusing on jobs, which is the only way to grow our economy and fix the country's deficit problems, we witnessed Republicans again refusing to compromise and putting their loyalty to lobbyists ahead of the American people. After manufacturi
CPC Co-Chairs Oppose Republican Scheme to Destroy 15 Million Jobs
November 18, 2011
Instead of a plan to create jobs and rebuild America, Republicans offered yet another partisan scheme to distract from the real help our country needs. They should be making decisions based on sound policy, not sound bites.
CPC Hears From Economic Experts on Need for Job Creation as Nation's First Priority
November 17, 2011
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) hosted an ad hoc hearing on job creation today featuring economists and other critical voices that have been excluded from Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction deliberations.
Congressional Progressive Caucus to Hold Ad Hoc Hearing on Job Creation
November 14, 2011
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) will host an ad hoc hearing this Wednesday, Nov. 16, on America's top priority: job creation. The hearing will feature economists and other critical voices that have been excluded from the Joint Select...
Congressional Progressive Caucus Invites "Super-Committee" Members to Attend Hearing on Job Creation
November 10, 2011
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) today invited members of the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction – the so-called "Super-Committee" – to an ad hoc hearing on America's top priority: job creation. The hearing will feature econom
CPC Co-Chairs Congratulate Ohioans on Victory for the Middle Class
November 9, 2011
The people of Ohio have spoken loudly: they will not stand by while Republican politicians take away the rights of hard-working Americans. Tonight's vote in Ohio is a victory for America's working families and a warning to politicians who would...
CPC Co-Chairs Applaud President Obama's New Initiatives to Get Veterans Back to Work
November 8, 2011
Twelve percent nationwide unemployment for our returning heroes is a national outrage. With hundreds of thousands of our veterans returning from foreign battlefields to face a tough economy at home, we must ensure that they get the support...
Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Urge No Immunity for Wall Street Banks
November 4, 2011
Across the country, Americans are outraged and taking to the streets to demand accountability from the big Wall Street banks whose reckless actions cost millions of families their homes and wreaked havoc on the American middle class.
The President's announcement is a victory for America and another monumental step toward the end of the disastrous foreign policy of the Bush era. The President is fulfilling a promise to the American people to end this misguided war...
