If lawmakers in the House vote this week on a “CR-omnibus” spending package, House Speaker John Boehner will be doing exactly what he accused former Speaker Nancy Pelosi of doing on a similar bill in 2009: Ramming it down Americans’
Speaker John Boehner may be endangering RINOs, or Republicans-In-Name-Only, across Capitol Hill with this bill, but he’s going to extra lengths to use the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to protect real-life
House Speaker John Boehner has decided to give President Barack Obama $5.4 billion to fight Ebola around the world and at home. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill Boehner’s House GOP leadership team introduced on Tuesday after 8 p.m. includes, according
On Wednesday, 50 sheriffs from around the country will converge on Washington, D.C. to demand that the GOP block House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) plans to fund Obama’s executive amnesty. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), “the
With appropriators set to unveil their much anticipated government funding measure Monday, the conservative Heritage Action is reiterating its threat to negatively score lawmakers who vote in favor of the spending package if it fails to block Obama’s executive amnesty.
Numbers USA says its activists have made tens of thousands of calls to lawmakers urging them to defund president Obama’s executive amnesty. The anti-amnesty group is pushing Congress to use the budget process to block Obama’s recent executive actions on
Talk radio host Laura Ingraham railed against the Republican Party’s reaction to the president’s executive action on immigration on Friday, wondering “what is the point of even having a Republican Congress?” She began by stating “call up Pete Sessions’ (R-TX)
NBC News Political Director and Host of “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd predicted that there will not be a government shutdown in part because “[Speaker] John Boehner (R-OH) has got more control of this conference than ever before” on Friday’s
On Friday, conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham called out top House GOP leaders for wanting to give permanent legal status to nearly all of the country’s illegal immigrants even after an election in which Republicans took back Congress because
Thursday at his weekly press conference, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) took a shot at President Barack Obama when asked if in retaliation for his executive order amnesty he would decline to invite the president to speak at
Despite criticism from his party’s conservative wing that House Leadership’s government funding plan does not got far enough to combat President Obama’s executive amnesty, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) argues that the current strategy has the “best chance for success.”
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan predicted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will back down in the battle against President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty. Buchanan said, “Boehner and those folks up on the
How many times can conservatives be rooked by establishment Republican leadership, and still keep coming back for more? In an attempt to find an answer to this question, Speaker John Boehner has now rolled out his big proposal to stop
Tuesday, Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said, “His [President Barack Obama] decision to take unilateral action on immigration, action he himself said exceeded his authority, makes it harder for the American people and their elected representatives to
House Republicans could formally respond to President Obama’s executive amnesty as early as next week, according to reports. A senior GOP aide confirmed to The Hill Friday that House leaders have reserved time on the floor in the hope that
The Hill’s Judy Kurtz reports that musician Billy Joel recently had a cigarette at the White House with President Obama – although the president reportedly quit years ago. According to the Hill’s source, Joel said that he had smoked with Obama
The Department of Justice released a letter earlier this week from 10 legal scholars at colleges across the country defending the president’s controversial executive action on immigration. The scholars – the letter is careful to point out – don’t always see eye-to-eye
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) revealed on Saturday that Republican leadership, led by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Oh), has no intention of resisting President Obama’s executive amnesty that he ordered on Thursday. Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steven K. Bannon asked
Speaker John Boehner said he told President Obama he was “damaging the presidency itself” in a conversation yesterday during his first public remarks following Obama’s decision to issue an executive amnesty. Boehner vowed “in the days ahead the people’s House
House Speaker John Boehner says The House of Representatives has filed a long-delayed lawsuit over President Obama’s changes to Obamacare. “Time after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and re-write federal law on
Despite going forward with immigration reform alone, without Congress, the White House is circulating several infographics showing what President Barack Obama is doing on his own and what Congress has left to accomplish. The images include three small ones–two of
Hours before President Barack Obama speaks to the nation about his long anticipated executive actions on immigration, House Speaker John Boehner has released a video statement chastising the president for going at it alone. “Instead of working together to fix
Wednesday at the White House daily press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama will wear the label of “emperor,” like a “badge of honor.” Earnest was responding to a question about House Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman Michael
The just-elected chairman of the Republican Study Committee is pledging to never publicly criticize GOP leadership, a marked turn for the position that has been used in past years to hold Speaker John Boehner’s feet to the fire on occasion.
Note from Senior Management: Left-wing Obama apologist Jonathan Chiat actually understands what is transpiring on the immigration fight. We reprint from New York Magazine. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republicans said they would prove they could govern. This
