Follow John Boehner news | Speaker John Boehner isn't backing down. Even as he faces a wave of criticism from his own party, the Ohio Republican isn't publicly relenting from his demand that House and Senate negotiators work out a full-year deal to extend the payroll tax holiday ... |
| Bloomberg - 5 hours ago Enlarge image House Speaker John Boehner House Speaker John Boehner US House Speaker John Boehner says he and other Republicans oppose Senate legislation to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits through February rather than letting those ... |
The Hill (blog) - 2 hours ago By Brent Budowsky - 12/22/11 09:50 AM ET When House Republicans turned off C-SPAN cameras to prevent Democrats being seen championing the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, it was a pathetic GOP confession of humiliation and defeat. |
Cincinnati.com - 4 hours ago Unemployed workers and concerned working families say they plan to protest and hold a press conference outside House Speaker John Boehner's West Chester office Thursday. The 2:30 pm event was arranged this week to object to Boehner's vote “against ... |
Washington Post - 1 hour ago Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) lays out the reasons for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal to extend the federal payroll tax for two months. |
Wonkette (satire) - 2 hours ago So nasty, in fact, that a very strange thing happened in the House chamber: Steny Hoyer was busy giving John Boehner the what-for—saying “As you walk off the floor, Mr. |
| HeraldNet - 3 minutes ago In his office underneath the Capitol dome, House Speaker John Boehner twisted in the wind. His House Republicans had killed a bipartisan plan to cut taxes for 160 million Americans, earning themselves an avalanche of criticism and condemnation from ... |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker John Boehner says House Republicans are still insisting on a one-year extension of an expiring payroll tax cut, even though one of his lieutenants has floated a shorter deal. |
| CNN International - 4 hours ago By Julian Zelizer, CNN Contributor House Speaker John Boehner and Senate MInority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared together at a news conference July 30, 2011 on Capitol Hill. |
San Francisco Chronicle - 10 hours ago Obama called House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to nudge him to compromise Wednesday. Boehner assembled his top negotiators, but with no one to negotiate with, they talked among themselves. |
| Boston Herald - 8 minutes ago Separately, in a Thursday morning phone call, House Speaker John Boehner urged President Barack Obama to send administration officials to the Capitol to negotiate an agreement on a long-term measure demanded by Republicans. |
| Daily Beast - 19 hours ago Lauding House Speaker John Boehner as 'our William Wallace' (think Mel Gibson, blue face paint—yes, that William Wallace), the Republicans ignore a crucial fact: Wallace lost. |
| Politico - Dec 18, 2011 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing Speaker John Boehner's call for House-Senate negotiations on the payroll tax cut, raising the stakes in the partisan fight. |
| Capital New York - 20 hours ago And while the Tea Party is largely credited for pressuring Speaker John Boehner into scuttling the deal, Ball said that obstructionist posture doesn't reflect the group's rank and file, and noted that even Tea Partiers don't give high approval ratings ... |
ScrippsNews - 13 minutes ago Had Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, slammed himself over the head with a frying pan on the House floor, he would have done more for the Republican cause than what transpired Tuesday. |
| Enlarge image Payroll Tax Tiff Times 25 Awaits Congress Payroll Tax Tiff Times 25 Awaits Congress Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, right, and House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, ... |
| Reuters Blogs (blog) - 16 hours ago If you, the president, have called John Boehner and urged him to compromise on extending the payroll tax deal by two months, then all that's left to do is go out Christmas shopping with your dog. |
| The Atlantic Wire - 2 hours ago Dana Milbank in The Washington Post on Boehner's press stunt On Wednesday, John Boehner allowed the press to witness him and other House colleagues in a conference room arguing their case for resisting the Senate's version of a payroll tax extension. |
| Woe is John Boehner. What do you call a leader who can't lead? Mr. Speaker, apparently. He'll have a blue Christmas, for sure. |
| Big Think - Dec 20, 2011 Is John Boehner serious about not holding a vote on tax cut extensions for the middle class because he thinks it might pass? |
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