Washington, DC - Correct The Record released the following statement on tonight's GOP debate:

"Ten candidates trying to outdo each other on the same out-of-touch, out-of-date rhetoric isn't a debate, it's an embarrassment," said Brad Woodhouse, President of Correct The Record. "Even when you factor in the seven other candidates in the 5 o'clock cheap seats, there is little diversity to be found in the Republican Party's backward agenda:

• "At the Kids' Table debate, 'abortion' or 'Planned Parenthood' were mentioned 19 times, while 'the Middle Class' was not mentioned one single time. At the Prime Time debate, they stepped up their game, managing to mention the Middle Class a whopping two times?but the obsession with attacking women's health continued.

• "The GOP candidates failed to offer any ideas on how to move our country forward. Instead, they spit out the same extreme, predictable talking points we've heard for years. Although some were even crazier than usual:
  
  

o   Huckabee wants to tax pimps and prostitutes to "fix" Social Security, and wants to return the military's mission to "kill[ing] people" and "break[ing] things."

o   Jeb!'s economic growth quick fix? Repeal Obamacare, stripping healthcare away from millions of Americans.

o   Trump wants to build the hugest, classiest border fence in history.

o   Rubio went out of his way to stress that he is opposed to women's choice even in the case of the life of the woman.

o   And Walker wants to continue to fight marriage equality.

• "As a candidate declared during the debate, 'If this election is going to be a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president.' That's about the only thing we could agree with tonight.

"Put simply, the GOP's tarnished brand was on display tonight for the whole country to see, and the contrast with Hillary Clinton's forward-looking agenda couldn't be clearer. A Republican Party that wants to gut Social Security, gut women's rights, gut Obamacare and gut the middle class just isn't ready for prime time, no matter how many candidates take the stage." 

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(DES MOINES) - Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today released the following statements praising former Iowa Speaker of the House Rep. Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) upon learning of his decision to step down from his leadership post in the Iowa House of Representatives. Paulsen is one of the longest-serving Republican leaders in Iowa House of Representative history.

"Representative Kraig Paulsen has been one of the most effective legislative leaders I have had the privilege of working with at the state capitol. Even before he was Speaker, Representative Paulsen worked across party lines in the minority to prevent the passage of ill-advised, job-killing legislation. With the partnership of Iowa House Republicans under his tenure as Speaker, we balanced the state's budget, restored financial stability in state government, passed the largest tax cut in the state's history and passed student-focused education policies to raise pupil achievement, among many other things," said Branstad. "As one of the longest-serving House Republican leaders in state history, I can understand Representative Paulsen's decision. I've appreciated his friendship, leadership, and his partnership as we've work to build Iowa for the future."

"As a former legislator who served during the period of reckless budgeting and across-the-board budget cuts, I've valued the commitment of Representative Paulsen to ensure government lives within its means just as the hard-working taxpayers of Iowa do each day," said Reynolds. "Together with Iowa House Republicans, we've worked to make state government more effective, efficient and innovative. We'll miss Representative Paulsen's leadership during the legislative session, but we're confident he'll continue to honorably represent his constituents and work to protect the interest of the hard-working taxpayers of Iowa."

A photo of Branstad, Reynolds and Paulsen from 2011 after Gov. Branstad had signed the last of the budget bills, which restored stability and predictability in state budgeting, can be found here.

DCCC Delivers Blum His Summer To-Do List

After last week's Independence Day Recess, the DCCC thought One-Term Wonder Congressman Rod Blum might need a refresher on the long list of items he and his House Republican colleagues need to get done before two fast-approaching deadlines: the August recess, and the end of the Fiscal Year.

Today, on the first full Congressional working day of July, the DCCC dropped off copies of the below to-do list to Blum's office, as a gentle reminder to him that with membership in the House majority comes a responsibility to govern effectively, and not from crisis-to-crisis.

"In addition to this list of tasks Blum and House Republicans desperately need to accomplish, Blum also should be reminded to check his own record before slamming job-creating programs like the Export-Import bank as 'corporate welfare,'" said DCCC Spokesman Tyler Law. "Blum's own company has accepted over $1.2 million in government assistance, $510,000 of which was essentially free taxpayer money in the form of forgivable loans."

DCCC Delivers Young His Summer To-Do List

After last week's Independence Day Recess, the DCCC thought One-Term Wonder Congressman David Young might need a refresher on the long list of items he and his House Republican colleagues need to get done before two fast-approaching deadlines: the August recess, and the end of the Fiscal Year.

Today, on the first full Congressional working day of July, the DCCC dropped off copies of the below to-do list to Young's office, as a gentle reminder to him that with membership in the House majority comes a responsibility to govern effectively, and not from crisis-to-crisis.