Showing posts with label House Speaker John A. Boehner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House Speaker John A. Boehner. Show all posts

Monday, January 5, 2015

Insurgency!

January 05, 2015 House Speaker John A. Boehner , Kyle Balluck 0 Comments
Republican Announces Challenge To Boehner For Speaker In New Congress
Kyle Balluck, Jan. 4, 2015, The Hill

“Eventually, the goal is second, third, fourth round, we have enough people that say ‘you know what, it really is time for a change,' ” Gohmert said Sunday. “'You deceived us when you went to Obama and Pelosi to get your votes for the cromnibus. You said you’d fight amnesty tooth an nail. You didn’t, you funded it.' ”

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Joe wants to run

November 10, 2014 Barack Obama , Daniel Halper 0 Comments
President, VP May Differ On Immigration Strategy: 'Obama Angrily Cut Biden Off'
Daniel Halper, Nov. 9, 2014, Weekly Standard

President Obama and Vice President Biden might not see eye-to-eye on immigration strategy. A hint of an apparent disagreement was on display during Obama's lunch with congressional leaders on Friday at the White House.

"The meeting was tense at times, according to a senior House Republican aide. The aide was not authorized to describe the back-and-forth publicly by name and spoke only on condition of anonymity," the Associated Press reports.

"Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, about to lose his grip on the upper chamber, barely said a word. The aide said at one point as House Speaker John Boehner was making an argument on immigration, Obama responded that his patience was running out and Vice President Joe Biden interrupted to ask how long Republicans needed. Obama angrily cut Biden off, the aide said."

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Friday, November 7, 2014

Drawing battle lines

November 07, 2014 House Speaker John A. Boehner , Obamacare 0 Comments
Boehner Vows House Will Repeal Obamacare 

By Stephen Dinan, Nov. 6, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

House Speaker John A. Boehner said President Obama will “poison” chances for cooperation with Congress if he moves unilaterally to claim powers to grant legal status to illegal immigrants.

“He’s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path,” Mr. Boehner said Thursday.

Newly elected to his House seat and likely to be returned at speaker in the next Congress, Mr. Boehner said he would like to tackle immigration in Congress but wouldn’t commit to holding a vote, saying he wanted to talk with his fellow House Republicans first.

He did, however, say the House will vote to repeal Obamacare and will also likely pass a bunch of bills to carve out some of the most contentious parts such as a tax on medical devices or the individual mandate.

“We need to put them on the president’s desk and let him choose,” the speaker said.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Moving toward the center?

November 05, 2014 Barack Obama , Ben Wolfgang 0 Comments
Obama Raises White Flag Already Reaching Out

Ben Wolfgang, Nov. 4, 2014, Washington Times

Even before the full results of Tuesday’s elections came in, President Obama made plans to reach across the aisle and began to prepare for life with a Congress fully controlled by Republicans.

Administration officials said Tuesday night the president will meet with House and Senate leaders at the White House on Friday.

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Saturday, May 3, 2014

House GOP: Obama Withholding Benghazi Email Is ‘Criminal’ --Nets, except for Fox, long ago lost interest

May 03, 2014 Benghazi , House Speaker John A. Boehner 1 Comments
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By Stephen Dinan, May 1, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

House Republicans accused the Obama administration Thursday of “perhaps criminal” behavior for having withheld for months key email that sheds light on how the administration framed its post-Benghazi talking points, potentially violating a congressional subpoena.

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said Secretary of State John F. Kerry will have to come before Congress to explain why his department refused to release the email until forced to do so by a judge.

Meanwhile, a retired Air Force brigadier general who was in the U.S. Africa Command’s headquarters the night of the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic post in Benghazi testified that he and others quickly realized the assault was spawned by terrorists. The general said it was either negligence or willful ignorance that led the White House, amid a re-election campaign, to say the violence was ignited by anger over a video.

Several high-profile Republican senators said the revelations, combined with questions still unanswered, should spur Congress to create an independent investigative committee to get the answers.

“If the White House won’t explain it, Secretary Kerry should come to the Capitol to explain why he defied an official congressional subpoena. And the White House needs to understand that this investigation will not end until the entire truth is revealed and justice and accountability are served,” Mr. Boehner said.

Judicial Watch, a public interest law firm, obtained the email under an open-records request enforced by a court order. The email shows a top White House national security official shaping how U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice should talk about the attack on a round of Sunday political talk shows. The email said blame should be placed on an Internet video.

The White House dismissed the rekindled questions.

“This is a conspiracy theory in search of a conspiracy,” press secretary Jay Carney said.

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