Boehner

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 6 days ago
Bloomberg - July 18 (Bloomberg) -- House Minority Leader John Boehner said the U.S. economy is surprisingly strong and dismissed calls by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a second stimulus package of tax rebate checks. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will lead a delegation of Republicans to Denver and Alaska next week to promote the use of U.S. resources and new technology to relieve the countrys energy crisis, according to sources familiar with the trip. ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 10 days ago
House Republicans are traveling to Alaska this weekend to check out the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, environment that is a source of millions of barrels of oil but one that Democrats have argued is pristine and should remain so. ...

Source: weblogs.chicagotribune.com --- 21 days ago
by Matthew Hay Brown Congress left Washington last week for the Fourth of July break, but gasoline prices take no holiday - and neither does the campaign by congressional Republican leaders to push for more domestic drilling. House Republican Leader John A. Boehner is highlighting today's CNN/Opinion Research poll finding that 73 percent of Americans in favor of expanded offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in protected U.S. waters. The survey of 1,000 Americans from June 26 to 29 is... ...

Source: www.pbs.org --- 35 days ago
Lawmakers met Thursday to debate funding allocations for the Iraq and Afghan wars, while continuing to mull how to best address soaring gas prices. House Minority Leader John Boehner explains GOP priorities in the House and how Congress has handled its most pressing issues. ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 43 days ago
On Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush. Today, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) dismissed the call for impeachment as the efforts of “left-wing bloggers“: This is just another example of the Democratic leadership in the House indulging trivial and silly conspiracy theories from left-wing bloggers, [...] ...

Source: www.crooksandliars.com --- 39 days ago
It’s pretty laughable to watch the leader of the party of stagnation and obstructionism claim that Republicans will win in November once they prove to voters that they’re the real “agents of change.” I wonder if Boehner realizes how foolish he sounds? Doubtful.  Download | Play  Download | Play Boehner: Well, Wolf, we’ve got a steep hill [...] ...

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- 23 days ago
House Minority Leader John Boehner is spending his holiday recess on the West Coast, stumping for two safe incumbents and one top Democratic target, as well as for an open seat candidate in a heavily Republican area. Boehner made stops in Washington State earlier this week, holding fundraisers for Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Doc Hastings and Dave Reichert, and he will hold an event later in the week for Duncan Hunter Jr., son of the retiring congressman who is running to succeed his father. McMorris Rodgers and Hastings, who represent districts east of the Cascade Mountains, are seen as safe incumbents. Democrats have not held either seat since 1994, and even with solid recruits in McMorris' Fifth District, Democrats still lost by twelve points in 2006 (Hastings won re-election that year by twenty points). Reichert, though, is in trouble. His suburban Eighth District, just east of Seattle, has increasingly voted Democratic for Senate and President, but Reichert has managed to cling to the seat since 2004, when he won by just five points. In 2006, Reichert beat former Microsoft employee Darcy Burner by just two points, and this year he will face Burner again. Those close to Reichert's campaign brag that he made more voter contacts in 2006 than any other campaign in the country, but in a presidential year he will have to do so again just to hold off Burner. Boehner, Cole and Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel are all on the trail this w ...

Source: www.nationalreview.com --- 4 days ago
We need a change of plans, Mrs. Speaker. ...

Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 31 days ago
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Source: thinkprogress.org --- 21 hours ago
Last night, on Glenn Beck’s CNN Headline News program, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) falsely claimed that wildlife in Alaska are not affected by oil operations in Alaska. Animals “couldn’t care less whether…the pipeline was there, or the oil company was there,” he said. Glenn Beck similarly argued that wildlife can’t tell if the Trans-Alaska oil [...] ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 9 days ago
In a press conference today previewing a House Republican trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that’s meant to promote drilling, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) doubted the existence of actual wildlife in the refuge. “We’re going to look at this barren, Arctic desert where I’m hoping to see some wildlife,” said Boehner. “But [...] ...

Source: www.house.gov --- 47 days ago
Washington Times Editorial - In the wake of embarrassing losses in special elections for congressional seats in Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi, the House Republican Party leadership has had several miserable weeks. The party's conservative base is justifiably angry over the fact that the party appears to have no coherent strategy for the fall elections and refuses to deal forthrightly with issues such as earmarks and atrocious measures like the farm bill. The party seems to lurch from crisis to crisis and personal scandal to personal scandal, and faces the prospect of massive losses of seats in the fall. The only way to arrest the pattern of decline is to seriously challenge the liberal Democratic leadership on matters of principal. ...

Source: www.therxforum.com --- 34 days ago
Forum: Politics and World Events... Posted By: doc mercer Post Time: 06-21-2008 at 07:34 AM ...

Source: blog.cleveland.com --- 6 days ago
Ten Republican congressmen led by House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio departed Washington DC's 95 degree heat today for a taxpayer-funded trip to Alaska's cooler climes. They hope to score political points on energy issues by visiting the National... ...

Source: www.reason.com --- 3 days ago
I grabbed lunch at a surprisingly subdued meeting between House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and around 50 conservative bloggers, reporters, and think-tankers. The American Spectator and Americans for Tax Reform hosted. Boehner's message of the day was "American-made energy," his buzz word for the campaign that Republicans will run against Democrats who refuse to drill in Alaska, shale, or offshore deposits. And most of the questions politely focused on energy. My one question was about Bob Barr . Boehner said he hadn't talked to Barr since he launched his Libertarian presidential bid, but "if I were talking to a conservative I’d suggest that they allow their vote to count and vote for John McCain. Bob Barr’s not going to win." When I asked what he thought of the idea that a Barr vote would shock the GOP into reforming itself (in a more libertarian direction, one assumes), Boehner flashed a get-real kind of smile. "A vote for Bob Barr—you might as well vote for Barack Obama. If you want to throw your vote away, that's fine. But that's what it would be." Phil Klein of the American Spectator (and o ccasionally of reason ), teeing off Boehner's talk of "reform," asked why Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) didn't get a seat on the House Appropriations Committee. "The steering committee decided that another member was more qualified for the job," Boehner said, "and the steering committee made that decision. I know that a lot of peopl ...

Source: techdailydose.nationaljournal.com --- 15 days ago
A Web fight is brewing in Congress. CongressDaily 's AM Edition has details: House Minority Leader John Boehner Tuesday implored online activists of all political persuasions to speak out against what he deemed “an attack on free speech” in the form of a proposed rule that would require Web sites like video-sharing service YouTube to comply with House regulations before members could post videos on them. Read the full story here . Meanwhile, some other interesting tech policy news, also in the AM Edition: Ahead of a scheduled House vote today, the White House threatened to veto a bill aimed at forcing the president and federal agencies to improve preservation of e-mail records. House aides said that while they expect the measure to get bipartisan support, it will be considered under regular rules because of the veto threat. The bill has generated some Republican opposition. Read the full story here . ...

Source: www.nysun.com --- 2 days ago
WASHINGTON — In the 2008 congressional elections, it will be every Republican for himself. Republicans on Capitol Hill are rejecting a sequel to the successful "Contract With America" campaign that won them the majority in Congress in 1994, a top party official said yesterday. "There will be no effort to try to nationalize the elections," the House Republican leader, Rep. John Boehner, told reporters at a lunch sponsored by the American Spectator magazine and Americans for Tax Reform. Mr... ...

Source: www.politico.com --- 11 days ago
Blog: Team Blunt beats team Boehner in softball. ...

Source: www.daytondailynews.com --- 42 days ago
Attacking John Boehner from the political right is like attacking Shaquille O'Neal from above. But it is happening. ...