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Speaker John Boehner to propose tax hike on the very rich, Politico says
US House Speaker John Boehner’s office would not confirm or deny a report which said the top Republican has proposed raising taxes on wealthy Americans as part of a deficit reduction deal. In what would be a significant concession in negotiations to strike an 11th-hour deal, Boehner would agree to…
Boehner warns ‘no progress’ on fiscal cliff deal
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday there was “no progress” in deficit talks and accused the White House of recklessly pushing the country to the fiscal brink over tax hikes. “This isn’t a progress report because there is no progress to report,” said Boehner, the main Republican in negotiations with…
Rep. Cole breaks with GOP: Middle-class tax cuts ‘a victory for common sense’
Breaking with his party, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) said Thursday that he supports a bill that extends tax cuts for the middle class. “As long as we have the right to continue to discuss and debate and fight on other issues, lets do that,” he told Tom Ferraro of Reuters.…
Chris Hayes: Boehner’s Medicare plan less popular than mandatory gay marriages
Filling in for MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes explained Wednesday night that provisions of the budget plan presented by House Speaker John Boehner were wildly unpopular, even among Republican voters. Hayes joked that forcing Americans to wed someone of the same gender would probably be more popular than Boehner’s…
Boehner ‘flabbergasted’ Obama offered his campaign promises in debt talks
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says he was “flabbergasted” when President Barack Obama opened debt talks by offering the same public positions that he campaigned on. According to details circulated by Republican aides last week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s offer included $1.6 trillion in taxes, $400 billion in entitlement spending…
Fiscal cliff negotiations stall as Republicans refuse to budge on tax rates
WASHINGTON — US Democrats and Republicans bickered on Thursday over whether to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, as crunch negotiations on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff stalled. Republican speaker John Boehner met Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, after a Wednesday phone call with President Barack Obama, but warned there had…
Three arrested as naked protesters storm Boehner’s office over budget cuts
At least three AIDS activists were arrested on Tuesday after they and other naked demonstrators briefly took over House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) to protest budget cuts to health care services. Activists from ACT UP, New York ACT UP, Philadelphia ACT UP, Housing Works and the Student Global AIDS Campaign…
Obama calls for ‘tough compromises’ in fiscal cliff talks
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders vowed Friday to make difficult compromises on taxes and spending as they opened talks on dodging a looming fiscal cliff and trimming the US deficit. With only weeks to avoid steep automatic budget cuts and tax hikes that could send the country…
Pelosi blasts Boehner for spending $1.5 million to defend DOMA
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Tuesday for spending nearly $1.5 million in taxpayer-funded money in a legal battle over the Defense of Marriage Act. “For more than a year, Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans have committed valuable taxpayer dollars to defending discrimination and…
John Boehner thinks the Republican convention and platform are too long
Are Republican convention and platform too long? John Boehner thinks so. House Speaker John Boehner, chairman of the Republican National Convention, says both conventions and party platforms would be better if they were shorter. Mr. Boehner, the top-ranking Republican in Washington, was dismissive of the party platform that was completed last week under…
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