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
Thursday at the Republican leadership press conference Speaker of the House John Boehner (R0OH) said the republicans will fight “tooth and nail,” to stop President Obama from taking executive action to give amnesty to upwards of five million illegal immigrants
House Republicans have re-elected Speaker John Boehner to serve as speaker for the 114th Congress, Republicans announced. House Republicans have elected @SpeakerBoehner to serve as Speaker of the House for the 114th Congress. — House Republicans (@HouseGOP) November 13, 2014
After a White House meeting last week, Republicans described Speaker John Boehner aggressively confronting President Obama over the president’s planned executive amnesty, prompting an extended period of a defensive Obama attempting to justify his actions. But a key moment of
In 2014, “the year of the Republican,” California was only the state in the nation that lost solidly Republican seats to Democrats. As the election results rolled in, the perfect, red Republican wave came to a crashing end on California’s sandy
In response to Dems to double down on Koch Brothers attacks: I’ll take a stab at guessing why Democrats are doubling down on Kochmania, even though they got creamed in the last election, and their Koch obsession makes the party
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) laid out the Republican Party’s agenda for the next two years, which included approving the Keystone XL pipeline, repealing harmful Obamacare regulations, and fixing a “broken tax code” during the Republican Party’s Weekly Address on
On his Wednesday radio show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh emphatically stated that it was not the job of newly elected Republican majority in both chambers of Congress to govern, work together, find common ground or compromise. Instead, Limbaugh
House Speaker John Boehner warned President Obama that executive would “erase any chances of doing immigration reform,” during a bicameral, bipartisan meeting at the White House Friday to discuss a path forward following the midterm elections. According to a readout
Stolen lives, that is how families refer to the death of their loved ones at the hands of criminals who were present in the country illegally when these men and women’s lives were stopped short. The Stolen Lives Quilt organization
From left: Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In back: Democratic Party mastermind and Andrew Breitbart nemesis John Podesta Not pictured: incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) warned President Barack Obama again against taking executive action on immigration Thursday, telling Obama he would be playing with matches and risk burning himself. “[H]e’s going to burn himself if he continues to go down
On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said it is time for a Republican-led Congress to move an immigration bill forward, so long as President Obama doesn’t “burn himself” by enacting executive amnesty before the end of the year. In
Now that the Republicans have taken over the U.S. Senate, as well as picked up more seats in the House, many expect that an internal party power tussle could take place between conservative legislators and the old GOP establishment. A
House Speaker John Boehner sternly warned President Obama against issuing an executive amnesty even as he vowed to move forward on major immigration legislation if the president backed down. “If he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority
President Barack Obama challenged Republicans on immigration reform on Wednesday, after Democrats suffered heavy political losses in the midterm elections. Obama signaled that he still planned an executive action on immigration reform, explaining that House Speaker John Boehner would never
Only hours after Barack Obama watched his party go down in flames Tuesday night, he turned to the constituency that most strongly supports him, meeting with black political leaders, including Al Sharpton. Sharpton is a frequent visitor to the White
Wednesday at the White House daily briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest deflected questions about the report from Jeffrey Goldberg that an anonymous Obama administration official called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a “chickensh*t,” by attacking Speaker of the House John Boehner
In a Tuesday email to supporters entitled, “Carl DeMaio Wants You to Vote For Him, But He Totally Disrespects Your Vote,” the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has followed through on a promise to “actively oppose” the candidate the GOP establishment
Grilled by reporters, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest addressed an order for a“surge” of immigration IDs of up to 9 million in one year, but said the move is no confirmation President Obama will issue a major executive amnesty
With just two weeks until Election Day, more voters report being undecided in the volatile Peters-DeMaio race in California’s coastal 52nd congressional district, according to new polling by the San Diego Union-Tribune. The razor-thin margin, still undecided race between Republican
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The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee does not think it is necessary to reconvene Congress and hold emergency hearings on the Ebola mission in West Africa, despite comments by two top generals raising concerns about the safety of
A draft solicitation for contractors that are able to produce millions of new immigrant IDs confirms that President Obama is in the process of moving forward with executive amnesty, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions. “This revelation provides startling confirmation of
