The $260 billion House transportation bill could reach the House floor as early as next week. Republicans deserve some praise for producing it. After all, it contains zero earmarks. However, Republicans seem to have punted on the issue of eliminating duplicative transportation programs. (more)
Speaker of the House John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of attacking religious freedom in a rare speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday over the contraceptives brouhaha. (more)
House Speaker John Boehner is continuing to avoid questions from The Daily Caller about whether he supports the 103 members of the House of Representatives who want action to remove Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
As the House of Representatives concluded its stirring send-off of the now retired Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, House Speaker John Boehner took a moment to offer a nationally-televised reminder to members of how they should be dressed on the House floor. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The applause rolled through the big chamber, growing ever louder as hundreds of Republicans and Democrats suddenly realized Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was back in the House. But this time she had come to say goodbye. (more)
President Barack Obama might not be addressing his refusal to green-light the Keystone XL pipeline project during his State of the Union address, but House Speaker John Boehner is trying to keep the issue front and center — announcing Tuesday afternoon that his guests for the Tuesday night speech will be some of the people “hurt by” the president’s denial of the Keystone permit. (more)
BALTIMORE, Md. — During a House GOP retreat in Baltimore on Friday, press secretaries for Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor balked when asked if their bosses believe Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to create jobs by rejecting a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. (more)
Rep. Allen West said Friday morning that he’s steamed at how the House GOP leadership did not “stand against” what he calls the “pathetic policy” that came out of the payroll tax cut extension last month. (more)
The beginning of a new year is a time for resolutions and taking stock, and for members of Congress a lot of resolutions and stock-taking may be in order. (more)
This week’s deal to extend the payroll tax cut was seen as something of a political liability for Speaker of the House John Boehner, and some on Capitol Hill believe it has put his leadership post in jeopardy. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers. The breakthrough almost certainly spares workers an average $20 a week tax increase Jan. 1. (more)
Democratic Michigan Rep. Sander Levin told The Daily Caller that House Republicans are “blinded by a rigid ideology” and suggested that they “take the blinders off, come back here, see the light” and pass the Democratic-led Senate’s two-month payroll tax cut extension. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a two-month renewal of payroll tax cuts for 160 million workers and unemployment benefits for millions of jobless, giving President Barack Obama a resounding victory over Republicans who control the House. The Senate approved the bill earlier Friday. The measure was passed by voice vote in a virtually empty House chamber despite lingering grumbling from tea party Republicans. It buys time for negotiations early next year on how to cover the costs of a yearlong extension of the two percentage point payroll tax cut, the centerpiece of Obama’s fall jobs agenda. (more)
On Wednesday, White House officials pushed to win a political victory, blaming House Republicans for the payroll tax fight. (more)
In a scene reminiscent to the 2008 House Republican protest of the then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s adjournment for the August recess, on Wednesday, the House of Representatives GOP leadership adjourned until Friday, Dec. 23, with a vocal protest from Democratic Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are renewing their call for the Democratic-led Senate to bargain with them and try to end the stalemate over extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits. (more)
After criticizing House Republicans for refusing to “cooperate” and vote for the Senate’s two-month payroll tax cut extension, President Barack Obama said that the GOP-led House could “learn something” from U.S. soldiers who “fight” and “sometimes die together” but “don’t care” about politics. (more)
House Speaker John Boehner called on President Barack Obama to “show real leadership” and call the Senate back into session to pass a payroll tax cut for a full year — a proposal which, Boehner pointed out, the president originally supported. (more)
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama used the payroll tax debate to continue to push his campaign trail effort to portray the House Republicans as irresponsible and petulant obstacles to economic recovery. (more)
