With the fiscal cliff looming, Speaker of the House John Boehner tried to use the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as an excuse in his decision to begin caving to President Obama’s demands to raise taxes. Asked about the timing
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio now appears to be trying to distance himself from House Speaker John Boehner when it comes to the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. Rubio told Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket on Tuesday that while he empathizes with
With fiscal cliff negotiations at a virtual standstill, Speaker of the House John Boehner has proposed a new plan that would put President Obama’s feet to the fire – but would also raise taxes on high income earners, betraying conservative
(AP) Reid: Boehner fiscal cliff plan can’t pass SenateWASHINGTONSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a House Republican backup plan for avoiding the “fiscal cliff” can’t pass the Democratic-run Senate. House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he was preparing a
Today, President Obama met with Speaker of the House John Boehner yet again … and yet again, favored White House media outlet Politico had the inside track. According to Politico, Obama made a new offer on tax rates, proposing that
Today, the Democratic Governors Association sent out a blast email suggesting that higher taxes on high-income earners was justified because it would target the Koch brothers. This is how low the left now stoops: they think that hurting the economy
House Speaker John Boehner reportedly had another secret meeting with President Barack Obama on fiscal cliff negotiations on Monday. This is the latest in a series of behind-closed-doors talks between the two. On Friday and over the weekend, Boehner caved
House Speaker John Boehner apparently broke from Republican Party principles yet again this weekend, this time with a reported agreement to give President Barack Obama a full year-long free ride that would give up all GOP leverage until early 2014
Conservative Republicans in the House are seriously concerned with reports that House Speaker John Boehner has abandoned GOP principles in his behind-closed-doors fiscal cliff negotiations with President Barack Obama by offering a tax rate increase. Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp
On Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney accused House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) plans to avert the fiscal cliff of being “fantasy economics.” Even though President Barack Obama’s initial offer, which included $1.6 trillion in new taxes an unprecedented
John Boehner pointed out the obvious on Thursday, noting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and then-Sen. Barack Obama would never have given President George W. Bush freedom to raise the debt ceiling as high as he wished. Boehner
This week, Jeffrey Zeints, Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner in which he pled for a huge chunk of cash, supposedly to help the victims
Did House Speaker John Boehner lie to the American people during a Thursday morning press conference when he denied the existence of a secret spreadsheet scorecard list allegedly involved in his purge of conservatives from House committee leadership positions? Breitbart
Maryland Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the counterweight from the left to House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, said he thinks House Speaker John Boehner is delaying on fiscal cliff negotiations so as he can get re-elected as Speaker
At a press conference on Capitol Hill Thursday morning, Speaker John Boehner was asked about how hard his job is to strike a deal with the White House and still maintain his job as Speaker of the House. “I’m not
House GOP leadership has a new spin as of late Wednesday on why they purged conservatives from influential House committees: “It was an a**hole factor.” Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a conservative himself but also a member of the House
On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told the House Republican Conference to not make plans for Christmas because of the impasse in the budget negotiations. CBS News reported Republicans leaving the meeting with Boehner said the House Speaker’s remarks
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is doing little to shape the debate over the fiscal cliff, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is targeting 40 House Republicans over the fiscal cliff and the attendant tax issues. The DCCC’s attack
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy blew off a scheduled meeting with the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) on Wednesday. At the meeting, McCarthy was going to explain the secret criteria list, including a voting scorecard, that he created for House
(AP) Boehner: ‘Serious differences’ remain in talksBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that “serious differences” remain between him and President Barack Obama in negotiations on averting automatic spending cuts and tax increases that economists fear could
Apparently, Santa Claus showed up at the US Capitol today to lecture John Boehner on raising taxes to avoid the fiscal cliff. Santa told the press that middle class families would be hurt unless Boehner caved in negotiations with the
A majority of registered voters disapproves of how House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has handled the fiscal cliff negotiations, according to a new national poll. The Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 54% of those surveyed disapproved of Boehner’s performance while
Embarrassingly, we’ve all been there. With something of a crush, we try to get the attention of that one special person. We send letters or, in this day, texts. We talk to friends of friends. We make outlandish public displays
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), a victim of Speaker John Boehner’s purge of conservatives from leadership positions in the House, said there’s definitely a possibility, depending on what happens during these fiscal cliff negotiations, that enough conservative members of the House
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy has agreed to debrief the conservative Republican Study Committee on Wednesday about his role in drafting Speaker John Boehner’s conservative purge secret scorecard criteria list, a congressman close to the situation told Breitbart News Tuesday
