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Congress Barrels Toward Highway Funding Deadline, August Recess

Monday night the Senate voted to advance its six-year highway legislation, including an extension of the Export-Import Bank attached. Conservatives are, however, staunchly opposed to Ex-Im’s reauthorization and House Leadership has indicated it will not take up the Senate’s bill.

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Bossie: The John Boehner Problem

Time and time again, John Boehner has failed to provide a vision or use the robust majority in the U.S. House—which conservatives provided him—to advance our policies. Instead, the Speaker has allowed President Obama to set the debate, set the terms, and summarily clean our clocks. Meekly, Boehner drifts along aimlessly and legislates by cliff and crisis, instead of bringing forward an optimistic agenda of bold colors that the American people crave.

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Boehner: Hillary Clinton’s ‘Poor Judgment Has Undermined Our National Security’

“Secretary Clinton has repeatedly claimed that the work-related emails on her private home server did not include classified information, but we know that is not true,” John Boehner says. “If Secretary Clinton truly has nothing to hide, she can prove it by immediately turning over her server to the proper authorities and allowing them to examine the complete record,” he added.

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Exclusive — Ted Cruz Hammers Everyone In Washington For Ex-Im Bank Ploy: ‘Washington Cartel At Its Worst’

Cruz had specific messages to every rank-and-file Republican, every rank-and-file Democrat and the two top GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, McConnell and Boehner, that he wants to make clear ahead of any Ex-Im effort. “To every Republican: Are you going to join with Barack Obama in perpetuating the cronyism and corporate welfare of the Export-Import Bank, or are you going to stand up and honor the promises you made to the men and women who elected you?” Cruz said.

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Nancy Pelosi: Federal Confederate Flag Ban ‘Is About Our Morals’

During a July 9 discussion on a spending bill, Democrat members of the House—led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12th Dist)—began pushing a vote to ban all “Confederate symbols from the Capitol.” This was a continuation of a push that began Tuesday, wherein Democrats sought to ban Confederate flags from all federal cemeteries.

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Boehner: Immigration ‘Biggest Political Football’ Of His Career, ‘Hope’ For Immigration Legislation This Year

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Boehner disagreed with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent comments about Mexican immigrants and pointed to the controversial nature of dealing with immigration. “I disagree with Mr. Trump’s comments and frankly I think when you look at the presidential candidates, they’ve all pretty well made their position clear,” Boehner said.

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Boehner on Hillary’s Statements on Emails: ‘Not True’

Thursday at his weekly briefing, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) detailed several of the “not true” statements Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had made to the press about the controversy surrounding her email practices during her tenure as Secretary of

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Boehner Talks Immigration Reform In Ireland

According to the Irish Times report, Boehner also spoke about how Ireland’s leader, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has often pressed him on the immigration matter. There are about 50,000 Irish immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, many having overstated their visas.

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Boehner: Obamacare ‘Fundamentally Broken,’ ‘Struggle Will Continue’

“The law is broken. It’s raising costs for American families, it’s raising costs for small businesses and it’s just fundamentally broken. And we’re going to continue our efforts to do everything we can to put the American people back in charge of their own healthcare and not the federal government,” Boehner says.

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Chaffetz: Meadows Voting Against Party ‘A Factor’ In Ouster

House Oversight Committee Chairman Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said voting against the party was “a factor” among “a variety of factors” in Representative Mark Meadows’ (R-NC) removal from a subcommittee chairmanship and that the removal was not something he communicated with