(CNN) -- Across America, middle-class families are wondering how they'll send their kids to college, pay their mortgages and still manage to save enough for retirement. Women across America face an uphill climb in the workplace, as they continue to earn less than men. We still sit in traffic on congested roads built decades ago, and then drive on run-down roads and crumbling bridges. These are among the problems our elected leaders are expected to address. These are the issues voters want us to focus on. But those are not the issues that the American people will remember as the priorities of John Boehner and the 113th Congress.
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Steve Israel: Middle class worries about money, equal pay, crumbling infrastructure
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He says GOP has not shown these are its priorities; party instead attacks Obama
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He says Boehner's Congress will be remembered for shutting down government in 2013
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Israel: Democrats running in 2014 will focus on the real priorities of the middle class
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