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Wanted to make sure you saw today's New York Times editorial that urges Republicans to work with Democrats to agree to a big, bold, and balanced package so that we can reduce the deficit, create jobs, build confidence in our economy, and avoid a damaging sequester:

Republicans have been using the specter of widespread voter fraud to justify new barriers to the ballot. But as Andrew Rosenthal notes this morning in the New York Times, the evidence for this fraud epidemic is not just scant, it is practically non-existent.

Wanted to be sure you saw this Bloomberg article out today highlighting how the Obama administration has approved fewer regulations than President Bush and pushing back on House Republican claims that there has been a “tsunami” of regulations since President Obama took office.

Key excerpts:

“President Barack Obama’s ‘tsunami’ of new government regulations looks more like a summer swell.”

While Republicans talk about their “Forgettable Fifteen” bills to roll back critical environmental and consumer protections, the facts show that they won’t lead to job creation.

Economists have said these bills won’t create jobs or help our economy.

Today, the House is considering the rule for the three percent withholding bill. Since Republicans still don’t have a jobs plan, they are touting the repeal as a jobs bill, but we disagree that repealing their own policy before it went into effect has any impact on jobs. And we aren’t the only ones.

A Talking Points Memo article highlights how the three percent withholding rule is a GOP policy:

Wanted to make sure you all saw today’s NY Times article on growing income inequality in the U.S. It’s a safe bet this will be a big part of the discussion as Democrats continue to fight to create jobs and grow the economy in the near-term, and push for a big, bold, and balanced deficit reduction package over the long-term. Republicans will have some pretty serious numbers against them as they fight for the 1% over the rest of Americans.

Wanted to make sure you all saw Roger Simon’s article today noting President Obama’s foreign policy successes. Even though they’ve faded from the front page pretty quickly, it’s a pretty impressive list: