A House and Senate GOP Budget Committee analysis of President Barack Obama’s newly released budget says the plan achieves just $119 billion in net deficit reduction, not the $1.8 trillion the White House claims. The GOP analysis finds that Obama’s
ABC “This Week” : Reacting to an early rejection of the expected details of the White House’s budget proposal by Speaker John Boehner, President Obama’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer pushed back this morning on “This Week,” saying that the president
(AP) Obama: Proposed budget not his ‘ideal plan’By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONConfronting bipartisan criticism, President Barack Obama conceded Saturday his proposed budget is not his “ideal plan” but said it offers “tough reforms” to the nation’s benefit programs while closing loopholes
WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) —President Obama’s budget blueprint will include proposed changes to Social Security and Medicare, and some new tax increases, administration officials said. The senior officials said Obama’s budget, to be presented next week, will include an offer
House Speaker John Boehner is seriously considering breaking promises he made to his caucus in securing his re-election as speaker in order to ram through an immigration reform package, Politico reports. “The GOP is also mulling skipping the committee process
On Friday, President Obama claimed his administration, known for its rampant green energy boondoggles like Solyndra, had the ability to avoid pork barrel projects when asking Congress to approve $21 billion for infrastructure funding. He made his remarks in Miami,
Nate Silver at the NY Times looks at the trend in recent polling and finds that President Obama no longer holds an advantage over the GOP on handling the economy. Shortly after his re-election, the President had an 18 point
WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) —The United States doesn’t face an immediate debt crisis, but entitlements must still be reformed to avoid one that lies ahead, House Speaker John Boehner says. And any talk about including revenue to address the government’s
(AP) Boehner says he ‘absolutely’ trusts ObamaWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner says he “absolutely” trusts President Barack Obama _ not that they don’t have their differences. Boehner tells ABC’s “This Week” that the two have a good relationship and that they’re
On ABC’s This Week, hosted by Martha Raddatz, Speaker of the House John Boehner appeared to downplay the problem of national debt while loudly proclaiming his wonderful relationship with President Obama. “The president and I, as I have made very
House Speaker John Boehner this morning on ABC’s “This Week”
Texas Representative Steve Stockman gave an exclusive recount of the GOP movement to remove John Boehner from Speaker of the House.
Late Sunday evening, in the aftermath of reports that House Republican leadership was considering passage of bills on major issues like gun control and immigration without a majority of House Republicans in support, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy reached out to
With more and more conservatives in the House rebelling against John Boehner’s increasingly questionable Speakership, Republican House leadership is now moving to quash in-house concerns by reaching across the aisle for support. Leadership is moving in the wake of a
A former Republican Congressman who worked closely with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) during the last decade has attacked Bohner as a “lazy” lawmaker who is more interested in “golf, women, cigarettes, fun, and alcohol” than policy or legislating. Granted,
House Speaker John Boehner and House GOP leadership rapidly scheduled a Wednesday morning floor vote on legislation that will fund the government–including the controversial Affordable Care Act–for the rest of the year, Breitbart News has learned. As Breitbart News reported
Thirty Republicans have signed onto a letter drafted by GOP Reps. Jim Bridenstine (OK) and Tim Huelskamp (KS) asking House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution. The popular support for
Top Republicans with classified information about the terrorist assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi last September may not want to see a House Select Committee formed to investigate the attack that left four Americans dead, including U.S. ambassador Chris
Conservative House Republicans are circulating a letter calling on House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to defund Obamacare in the upcoming continuing resolution that funds the government. Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine, a freshman, and Kansas
CBS: House Speaker John Boehner tells Scott Pelley it’s “outrageous” that detained immigrants are being released from U.S. detention centers because of budget cuts from the pending sequester. For more on the interview, watch “The CBS Evening News.”
(AP) Boehner after Obama meeting: No new taxesWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner says higher taxes won’t be part of any deal to solve the country’s budget mess. Boehner emerged from a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and said there
As Republican leaders like House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama get set to meet on Friday, the day the sequester is set to go into effect, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted Congress for another “ginned-up” crisis and
As Capitol Hill prepares to withstand any fallout stemming from Friday’s sequestration cuts, Obama and the Democrats are increasing pressure to replace the spending cuts with tax increases. Fearful that the House GOP would go along with such a plan,
A frustrated John Boehner held yet another sequester press conference. This time he expressed his exasperation by swearing at the Senates inaction.
(AP) The Onion apologizes for ‘crude’ actress tweetBy MARK KENNEDYAssociated PressNEW YORKThe Onion is apologizing for calling the 9-year-old star of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” a vulgar and offensive name on Twitter, an attack that led to a firestorm
Last year, a Princeton professor took to the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal to mock House Speaker John Boehner for daring to use the phrase “job-killing government spending.” The thesis of this editorial was that government spending might
On Thursday, Feb. 21, Breitbart News had the opportunity to talk with Gun Owners of America’s Executive Director Larry Pratt about the current push for more gun control and the bulwark for freedom our Founding Fathers intended the Second Amendment
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) —Democrats plan to make raising the minimum wage an issue in the 2014 campaign, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said. Pelosi said Democrats will use the same message as they did in 2006, when
The White House has endorsed a plan Senate Democrats proposed to offset the sequester with more tax revenues, insisting House Republicans adopt it as well. On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama just wants “more stimulus spending
Contrary to prior statements Barack Obama made to John Boehner, the president now apparently does believe that the United States has a spending problem. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday: Of course, the president believes that we have
It takes greater courage to resign power, when appropriate, than to cling to it. Pope Benedict XVI may be the first to resign since the 15th century, but his example reminds us that resignation need not mean defeat. It is
(AP) Boehner steadies GOP team, reframes deficit debateBy CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated PressWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner has shored up his political clout after a shaky month, persuading his Republican caucus to pick its fights with Democrats more strategically. His impressive rebound, aided
It’s National School Choice Week and Heritage has a timely reminder that school choice works: students who participate in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP)–a private school voucher program for low-income K-12 students–graduate at significantly higher rates than their peers,
Speaking to the conservative Ripon Society on Tuesday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) admitted that he screwed up the public relations aspect of the fiscal cliff negotiations: Looking back, what I should have done the day after the
On the heels of the most partisan inaugural address in American history, Republicans are apparently beginning to wake up to the fact that President Obama has no intention of acting in bipartisan fashion. Rather, he’s intent on destroying the Republican
With the re-election of Barack Obama in November – and with his heavy support in the Latino community — the Republican Party has been openly considering what it can do to open up the Latino vote for conservative gains. For
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said there “basically” is a bipartisan agreement already for immigration reform in the House. President Barack Obama will unveil his plan for comprehensive immigration reform on Tuesday. Boehner made the comments last week at the Ripon Society.
Who’s afraid of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann? The entire range of far-left activists, apparently. Bachmann (R-MN) is currently the target of an aggressive campaign sponsored by a leftist organization, People for the American Way. Its immediate objective is to get House
Former Notre Dame head coach and ESPN college football commentator Lou Holtz sent a text message to House Speaker John Boehner after watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration and complained “the country’s over with” and that he never wanted to see
House Speaker John Boehner, who’s spent the past two years trying to work with President Barack Obama, finally appears to understand what he’s up against. In remarks to the Ripon Society on Tuesday, Boehner–the de facto head of the Republican