Our agenda helps communities improve public education with quality teachers, smaller classes, greater accountability and modern schools. Democrats also want to pass a real, enforceable patients' bill of rights that returns medical decisions to doctors and protects HMO patients from insurance company abuses. The Republicans intention this year appears to be to cut their reckless and unpopular scheme to cut taxes for the special interests into smaller pieces. That plan would still leave Social Security and Medicare vulnerable in the future. We do not have a year to waste in working for our future.
Democrats are ready to get to work to expand our prosperity and invest in the future.
Today, we invite reasonable Republicans in Congress to reject their right wing leaders, and join with us in addressing Americans' everyday, kitchen-table concerns.