Tag: John Boehner

Rep. Michael Grimm’s (R-NY) decision to resign from Congress is “honorable,” House Speaker John Boehner says. Monday the embattled New York lawmaker announced his intention to step down. He’d pleaded guilty to tax evasion earlier this month.

A member of John Boehner’s inner circle is under fire even as the House Speaker is at his most vulnerable. Exactly one week before the House GOP’s top official will seek re-election to his post, multiple sources report that his deputy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, spoke at a conference of white supremacists back in 2002.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is officially inviting President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union before a Joint Session of Congress in January. In a letter to Obama Friday, Boehner extended the invitation for Obama to appear

House Speaker John Boehner slammed President Obama’s changes to the policies between Cuba and the United States, criticizing the president for conceding to the “dictatorship” of the Castro regime. Boehner said that Obama’s actions would embolden “all state sponsors of

Despite criticism from conservatives that House Leadership has demonstrated a less than forceful opposition to President Obama’s executive amnesty, House Speaker John Boehner’s office continues to attack Obama for his unilateral actions. In a dispatch from the Speaker’s office Tuesday

In the 3.8 years since John Boehner (R-OH) has been Speaker of the House, U.S. debt has skyrocketed $3,815,285,317,834.71, reports CNS News. “The $3.8 trillion in new debt that the federal government has accumulated under the spending deals approved by

Speaker John Boehner’s top aide for more than two decades, Dave Schnittger, has announced he is leaving Boehner’s office and walking through Washington’s revolving door to become a lobbyist at powerhouse Squire Patton Boggs–a move that will give Schnittger maximum

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) says that House GOP leadership–he hasn’t identified anyone in particular–duped him into switching his vote on the procedural measure that set up the 1,774-page, $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending bill backed by House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack

House Speaker John Boehner is celebrating a major political victory after his “Cromnibus” bill passed the House by a slim margin with the help of House Democrats. In a statement, Boehner praised the bill as “responsible” and “bipartisan” legislation that

On Thursday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R, OH) promised to challenge Obama’s amnesty policies, but despite the political pressure, Obama plans to push forward with his legalization process, and the White House says it is set to begin

As House Republican leadership scrambles to pass the controversial Obama-Boehner “cromnibus” spending bill, other parts of the federal government are getting ready, in case they need to shut down. As Chad Pergram of FOX News tweeted, “Out of an abundance of

House Speaker John Boehner claims that next year Republicans will take the fight over executive amnesty to President Obama.  “We’ve also made clear that early on we’ll make a direct challenge to the president’s unilateral actions on immigration,” the Ohio

Laura Ingraham is blasting Republican House leadership over its support for a more than $1 trillion “Continuing Resolution-Omnibus” budget bill she calls “a 1,600 page bad joke.”  On her nationally syndicated radio program Thursday, Ingraham said that Speaker John Boehner

On the floor of the House of Representatives, leaders from both parties took a moment to recognize retiring Democratic Rep. John Dingell’s final vote — for the cromnibus bill. Dingell, from Michigan, is a 59-year veteran of the House, and

House Republican leadership doesn’t seem to have the votes right now to pass Speaker John Boehner’s omnibus spending bill, and they just lost another major conservative with tons of influence in the House. As the leadership postponed the vote and