A lot of Republicans made it into office in the last midterm election, promising

to focus on the economy and getting Americans back to work.

What have they done since taking office?
* Restrict/ban abortion
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3/show
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/541115/
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://swampland.blogs.time.com/201...abortion-bills/
* Redefine rape
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3/show
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://theweek.com/article/index/21...redefining-rape
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...1013105755.html
* Recategorize cold-blooded murder of abortion doctors as "justifiable homicide
"
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/...Intro/LB232
.pdf
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2...e=HB1171HJU
.htm
* Eliminate net neutrality
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h96/show
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_di...cdce4fc165961f5
* Ban gay marriage
-Citation Info: Over 20 individual citations can be found at the wiki article a
bout it. Citations cover State and Fed
-Citation: (WIKI DIRECT BILL TEXT LINKS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-s...
same-sex_unions
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/50987.html
* McCarthy-esque "muslim" hunt
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...V3BQ_story.html
* Ban already-non-existent Sharia law
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/...on=27&bill=
hb88
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.azleg.gov//FormatDocumen...&Session_ID
=102
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assem.../Bills/SB97
.pdf
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?...rn=1&hbxlogin=1
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://gaveltogavel.us/site/2011/01...e-legislatures/
-Citation: (WIKI DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.p..._Law_A
mendment_(2011)
* Restrict the voting ability of college students
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/leg...011/HB0176.
html
* Investigate secession from the union
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl...an/7458701.html
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.freerangelongmont.com/20...ants-to-secede/
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.alternet.org/newsandview...ocial_security/
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/272508
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/0...rgia-to-secede/
* Investigate ways for states to ignore federal mandates
 -Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1101/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h663/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h154/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h21/show
* Demand yet another birth certificate
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1503/show
-Citation: (FACTCHECK.ORG) http://factcheck.org/elections-2008...in_the_usa.htm
l
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation...ma-hawaii_N.htm
* Eliminate collective bargaining agreements
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s572/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h807/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/11...&nid=t0:hi:
2015
* Repeal Union Rights
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...3890014010.html
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.businessweek.com/ap/fina...s/D9M6G1601.htm
* Repeal health care reform
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1186/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h364/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h397/show
* Defund Obama's teleprompter to save money (seriously)
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://content.usatoday.com/communi...pes-budget-ax/1
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://reddogreport.com/2011/02/hou...s-teleprompter/
* Defund public broadcasting
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s492/show
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h68/show
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-to-defund-npr-
* Defund education
-Citation: (HORSES' MOUTH) http://www.americanindependent.com/...igher-educatio
n
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/mar...pt-legislators/
* Defund Planned Parenthood despite government money already cannot fund aborti
ons, thus only impacting health services mainly for women
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1/show
* Defund EPA
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1/show
* Decry energy efficient light bulbs
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h6144/show
* Return to using Styrofoam cups in the congressional cafeteria
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_...771-503544.html
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...z_n_830536.html
* Deny food stamps to families of workers who go on strike
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1135/text
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.salon.com/technology/how...ares_hunger_war
* Death Penalty for miscarriages
 -Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation...gislation=3
1965
* Decry breastfeeding awareness
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/M...0733/story.html
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.politicususa.com/en/bach...-breast-feeding
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.inhabitots.com/michelle-...raws-criticism/
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.haiboss.com/health/miche...e-have-a-point/
* Decry healthy eating initiatives for children and schools
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.examiner.com/celebrity-i...ribs-for-dinner
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE & HORSES' MOUTH) http://mediamatters.org/research/20100
9170003
* Claim that oil companies will collapse without government subsidies
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE & HORSES' MOUTH) http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
s.php?ref=fpblg
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmem...l-subsidies.php
* Decry 'pork' while simultaneously seeking 'pork'
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/1...heyve-been-had/
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho...ver-earmark-ban
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/1...loated-defense/
* Decry federal stimulus dollars while accepting/seeking it and taking credit f
or the things it pays for
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110314...barbour_economy
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com...mulus-hypocrisy
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/23/new...mulus/index.htm
* Push for creationism in schools
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.kten.com/Global/story.as...&mobilecgbypass
* Chastise Natalie Portman 'glorifying' (by existing, apparently) pre-marital p
regnancy while simultaneously defending Bristol Palin
* Get between women and their doctors by forcing them to get sonograms before a
bortion
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_...146-503544.html
* Attempt to get a completely unwanted second F-35 engine (coincidentally to be
built in Speaker Boehner's state) funded over the protests of the military, dep
artment of defense, and secretary of defense
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/1...loated-defense/
* Convincing the people earning $30,000 that the person making $250,000 is too
poor and the teacher making $60,000 is too rich
* Condemn the NYC multicultural center and mosque because muslim = terrorist, d
espite having been an avid supporter of the IRA for years
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/u...ics/09king.html
* Explain that the reason you cheated on two of your wives, one who was in the
hospital with cancer, was because you were extremely passionate for America
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/...r-this-country/
* Half-jokingly suggesting that the illegal immigration problem can be solved l
ike the feral swine problem -by shooting them from helicoptors; in defense of co
mments: "I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person."
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kans...ory?id=13223497
* Lower a state minimum wage
 -Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.wgme.com/newsroom/top_st..._vid_7279.shtml
* Call an emergency meeting to again try to de-fund public broadcasting in the
wake of a heavily-edited and exceedingly misleading video
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/...cy-gop-hearing/
* Blame an 11 year old girl for being gangraped by 18 people for several hours
because she had dressed like a "prostitute"
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/...eged-gang-rape/
* Reaffirm "in god we trust" as the national motto
* Protect creationists (and nobody else) from workplace discrimination
-Citation: (DIRECT BILL TEXT) http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/Bill...82R&Bill=HB
2454
* Strongly advocating for intervention in Libya before Obama gets involved, sha
rply criticizing intervention after
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...ch-s-flip-flops
* Abusing the freedom of information act to try to harass and/or discredit a un
iversity professor who wrote an op-ed in his personal time questioning a Republi
can governor
* Loosen child labor laws
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/...2011-04-01.html
* Lament that your $172k salary isn't as much as it sounds because you have a f
amily, loans, bills, etc. and that you have trouble paying your bills then go on
to support cutting public sector compensation packages
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...he-internet.php
* Complain that Democratic congressmen keep asking where the jobs are
* Speak to a Christian organization event during a taxpayer-funded trip to Keny
a (which has stricter abortion laws than the US) to rail against a new provision
in their constitution allowing abortions when the mother's health is at risk
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...e_n_842652.html
* Scold a Democrat for using the word 'uterus' on the house floor because young
pages might hear
-Citation: (NEWS SOURCE) http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-b...rus-house-floor
* Accuse the president of going to war with Libya to deplete our armed forces t
o he can call up the private army written into the health care reform bill (seri
ously)
-Citation: (LIVE RECORDING) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMst...player_embedd
ed
How many jobs will all this create? How will any of this help the economy get g
oing again? Or is claiming to focus on jobs secret GOP code for "pander to our b
ase with social wedge issues and culture war fronts"?