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Boehner on IRS targeting: ‘Who is going to jail over this scandal?’
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Wednesday took the unexpected step of calling to imprison someone in the U.S. government after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted inappropriately scrutinizing tea party groups to determine if they had abused their tax-exempt status. “Now my question isn’t about who is going to…
Current TV host plays Boehner in ‘orange face’ to mock David Gregory’s softball interview
Current TV host John Fugelsang on Monday painted his face orange to point out the absurdity of House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Sunday interview with NBC’s David Gregory. Fugelsang played the part of a grumpy Boehner, while Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s Frank Conniff took the role of mocking Gregory’s interviewing…
David Gregory spars with Boehner: ‘Mr. Speaker, that’s just not true’
Meet the Press host David Gregory repeatedly pressed Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) to explain why he believed President Obama was to blame for the automatic budget cuts that went into effect Friday when Congress failed to reach a compromise. He never got an answer that quite…
Pelosi rips into Boehner’s desire to ‘pink slip’ Americans in budget negotiations
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday blamed Republicans for doing nothing to stop automatic spending cuts in the so-called sequester, which she said would disproportionately impact women and that Americans “might as well get a pink slip” directly from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). “Tomorrow is fraught with…
Boehner urges Senate to get ‘off their ass’ and do something on sequester
Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) called on President Barack Obama and the Democratically-led U.S. Senate take action to avoid the sequester on Tuesday, asking what it will take for the Senate to “get off their ass” and do something. The sequester is a set of rapidly approaching…
Boehner: ‘How about a little foreplay’ before immigration reform?
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says that he isn’t willing to talk about a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants until he gets “a little foreplay” from President Barack Obama. During a small meeting with reporters on Tuesday, ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Boehner if he was ready to discuss a…
Boehner: Ending abortion ‘one of our most fundamental goals this year’
In a special message to the annual anti-abortion protest March for Life, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) vowed that ending abortion would be one of the top priorities of Republicans this year. “Defending life, of course, is about much more than voting the right way or saying the right things,”…
New Congress faces more budget battles
The 113th US Congress, featuring dozens of new faces in the House and Senate, convened Thursday fresh from the year-end “fiscal cliff” fiasco, as lawmakers cast a wary eye towards the tough budget battles ahead. Twelve freshman senators and 82 newly-elected congressmen took the oath of office, with President Barack…
Tea party Reps vote for ousted Allen West over Boehner for Speaker of the House
The vote for Speaker of the House began Thursday morning in the wake of the New Year’s fiscal cliff deal that has left many in the Republican Party unhappy with the party’s Congressional leader, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), particularly members of the tea party caucus. According to NPR, the vote…
Cantor’s revolt exposes Republican rift in fight for party’s future
A Republican civil war, which has simmered under the surface since the party’s defeat in last November’s presidential election, has now burst firmly into the open and pitted party leaders against each other. Majority leader Eric Cantor’s extraordinary vote against House speaker John Boehner in Tuesday’s late-night vote in the…
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