Republicans hope the program, released just five weeks before crucial midterm elections will help to power again in the majority in the House.
"In America, people see a government in Washington is not listening, do not understand, and does not care," said Minority Leader John Boehner, while he and other Republican leaders launched the 21-page document in a press conference in the history of hardware and lumber store in Sterling, Virginia
"This new government program, built by listening to people, has plans to create jobs, reduce spending and put the power it belongs: in the hands of the people," he said. "" A Promise of America offers a new way forward that has not been tried in Washington. A focus on reducing spending rather than accelerate spending, and eliminate uncertainty for private sector innovators and entrepreneurs who create jobs "
The plan is divided into five areas: the economy, government spending, health care, government reform and national security. The Republicans are asking among other things, a reduction in federal spending for fiscal 2008 levels, except for national security, citing constitutional authority in the introduction of legislation, requiring all bills to be published Internet three days before the vote.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said that if the GOP plan to run "visit a plague Americans.
"Imagine what the plague can be visited on his family if we were to repeal the patient's bill of rights" he said.
A spokesman for the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said in an e-mail, "Republicans in Congress have pledged to send jobs overseas, burn a hole of $ 700 billion in deficits to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, in turn Social Security from a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble, once again, subject to American families to the recklessness of Wall Street, and take away the rights of patients. "
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