U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama watch as Ohio Governor John Kasich putts on the first hole of their golf game in Maryland. Photographer: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and House Speaker John Boehner play on the first hole during their golf game at Andrews Air Force [...]
We are watching a Mad Hatter Tea Party Congress. Instead of the adult behavior House Speaker John Boehner promised last December after his party’s victory, the American people are left with political games that make the new ultra-conservative elite pleased, but put middle class Americans and the country we love at serious risk. Last fall, [...]
“CRITICAL DEADLINE IN 24 HOURS” screeched an email from House Speaker John Boehner that arrived in my inbox on Thursday morning. A deadline on negotiations to raise the national debt ceiling? On giving assurances to financial markets? On hammering out a plan to cut federal spending AND close gaping tax loopholes? Nope: Boehner was warning political contributors [...]
HOUSE Speaker John Boehner is fond of saying that a debt-ceiling deal that raises taxes cannot pass the House of Representatives. Slice the numbers a bit more carefully and you can easily conclude the opposite: a deal that doesn’t raise taxes won’t pass, either. Why is this? Mr Boehner’s party controls 240 of the 435 [...]
He called on lawmakers to work through their July Fourth recess. He argued that his 12- and 10-year-old daughters show more discipline getting their work done. “They’re not pulling all-nighters,” he said. “Call me naive,” he said at another point, “but my expectation is that leaders are going to lead.” Obama is tilting at an [...]
Video: Will the FEC Allow Colbert SuperPAC?; Boehner ‘Won’t Do That’ to Reduce the Deficit June 30, 2011 | 7:36 AM | Share Stephen Colbert prepares to answer questions from the Federal Election Commission about Colbert SuperPAC. Jon Stewart, on Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, saying the deficit needs to be reduced but that “tax increases [...]
After three straight lopsided elections, Congress still can’t — or won’t — function. Just 18 bills have become law through the first half of 2011, and 15 of those named a building after someone, temporarily extended expiring laws or appointed an official to the board of the Smithsonian Institution. Congress can’t decide what to do [...]
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Chip Chinery (center) from “Wilfred” sitcom with star Elijah Wood (right) and fellow guest star John Michael Higgins. John Boehner’s recent golf summit with President Barack Obama inspired comedian Chip Chinery to recall his own golf summit with the future Speaker of the House. The Anderson Township native writes about that day back in 1978 when, [...]
In this file photo of Thursday, June 16, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, right, stands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) If President Obama was hoping that his tongue-lashing of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday would jump-start stalled debt talks, the GOP response made clear that [...]