Despite Republican attempts to block progress at every turn, Democrats have accomplished more in the past six months than Republicans accomplished in the past six years. Democrats will work to make our country more secure, change course in Iraq, and clean up Washington.

Even with Republicans fighting us at every step, Democrats also have passed:

• funding to ensure first responders have the tools they need to do their jobs and enhance security at our airports, ports and mass transit facilities
• a raise in the minimum wage for the first time in a decade
• health care for millions of low-income children health care
• pay-as-you-go budgeting that restores fiscal responsibility to Washington
• tough ethics and lobbying reforms reversing the Republican culture of corruption
• energy legislation that creates jobs and strengthens national security
• a pay raise for our troops
• improvements to the care our veterans receive when they come home from battle
• legislation that makes higher education affordable for more Americans
• funding to help rebuild the Gulf Coast