Tag: John Boehner

Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer fired back at House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) office on Thursday over disparaging comments Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck made about Schweizer and the revelations in his new book,

For much of Obamacare’s launch, the media has focused its attention on HealthCare.gov, now a nearly universally-recognized disaster. Falling by the wayside, however, is what the law actually means for Americans in need of insurance, and there the numbers are

Even though the Congressional Budget Office determined that comprehensive immigration reform legislation would lower the wages of working class Americans in a sluggish economy, President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he has not heard of a good reason for

An explosive new book alleges Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) collected over $200,000 in donations from executives and companies just days before holding votes on three bills of critical importance to their industries. The new revelations come on the heels of

House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) spokesperson Brendan Buck has issued an unsubstantiated statement to the National Journal attacking the character and credibility of Breitbart News Senior Editor-At-Large and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer. This week, Schweizer, who is the William J. Casey Research Fellow at the

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday held out the possibility that he might bring U.S. immigration legislation to the floor by the end of the year. Asked at a question-and-answer session with reporters if he

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) said on Wednesday at the Heritage Foundation-hosted Conversations with Conservatives press event that House Speaker John Boehner has promised him that the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill is dead in the House. “I very recently

In an interview on Newsmax TV’s The Steve Malzberg Show, Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas said that, despite the dissatisfaction of Tea Party conservative Republicans, John Boehner’s job as House Speaker is safe. Huelskamp, himself a Tea Party conservative, said,

The House convenes Wednesday morning, but no further action on government funding or the debt ceiling is expected. House GOP Leaders had tried to pass a new proposal to end the partial government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling on

The divide between the establishment GOP and the grassroots on the right is getting bigger than it has been in years. Movement leaders feel conservatives had momentum in the negotiations with President BarackObama’s administration and were could have demanded serious

Conservative House members are not throwing in the towel on fiscal negotiations just yet, even though Senate Republicans are trying to cut a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama. “The problem with Senate Republicans is

Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) told Breitbart News that his party’s leaders should be very careful about targeting conservative members associated with the Tea Party, as the reason Republicans hold a majority in the lower chamber is because Tea Party activists

(AP) Senate rejects Democratic debt limit extensionBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has rejected a Democratic effort to extend the government’s ability to borrow money through next year.Before the vote, Republican senators said Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch

On his radio show on Friday, Fox News host Sean Hannity said House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), along with the rest of the Republican leadership in the House, had to be replaced.  “I do think leadership in the House needs

I’ve been concerned all week about the risks of a two-stage negotiation strategy, which other conservatives seem to have considered a good idea. That concern has been validated by the precarious position the GOP suddenly finds itself in, after Speaker