With the GOP formally taking control of Congress today following victories in November’s midterm elections, House and Senate Republicans are in a strong position to push their legislative agenda. Here’s a look at their top priorities:
- Decreasing government’s role in what is left of education
- Overturning landmark compromises, concessions, and accommodations of Obama legacy
- Following through with their unique interpretation of improving women’s health care
- Spurring job growth by creating thousands of new jobs investigating Benghazi
- Putting an end to old era of congressional gridlock, dysfunction, and wastefulness; beginning new era of congressional paralysis, failure, and squandering
- Getting all objectionable comments out of party members’ systems right now so as not to be remembered by 2016
- Pretty much just picking up right where they left off last term
- Trying to identify some kind of tangible Democratic achievement on gun control to undo
- Aiming high for a steady congressional approval rating of 16 percent
- After all political goals achieved, governing