Obama Threatens Boehner: I’ll Use Inaugural Address And State Of The Union...
Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the ...
View ArticleTime running out on defense industry efforts to avoid sequestration cuts
The clock has all but run out on the defense industry’s efforts to stave off billions in looming budget cuts under sequestration. At the Pentagon, ...
View ArticleObama, lawmakers return to ‘cliff’ with little room left to maneuver
With time running out, President Obama and members of the Senate will return to Washington on Thursday in search of a scaled-back agreement to lessen ...
View ArticleReid: ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal unlikely
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday said it is likely too late for Congress to pull the nation back from the “fiscal cliff.” ...
View ArticleExclusive: McConnell Calls Out Obama’s Negotiation Charade
The office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to reports today that President Barack Obama called him and other congressional leaders to receive ...
View ArticleGuns, immigration, fiscal issues emerge as top priorities for Obama, new...
After an election year in which legislative business practically ground to a halt, Congress is poised to make up for lost time in 2013. The ...
View ArticleBoehner tells GOP he’s through with one-on-one Obama talks
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: he’s telling Republicans he is ...
View ArticleFailed coup effort against Boehner highlights House GOP divisions
A group of dissident Republicans failed on Thursday to push Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) to a second ballot in his election as Speaker and potentially ...
View ArticleBoehner absolves GOP defectors, seeks to reassert his command
Battered by division and defections, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is setting out to re-unify his conference and prove to Democrats in the White House and ...
View ArticleObama to Boehner: ‘We Don’t Have a Spending Problem’
In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama’s utter unwillingness ...
View ArticlePossible snag for Republicans’ no-pay budget plan
House Republicans might run into a snag in trying to suspend congressional pay as a way to nudge budget negotiations along: the U.S. Constitution. As ...
View ArticleBoehner: Obama’s goal is to ‘annihilate’ the Republican Party
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he believes the primary goal of President Obama’s second term is to “annihilate the Republican Party.” “Given what we heard ...
View ArticleObama: Budget Cuts Could Force Small Businesses to Close Doors
President Barack Obama said clean energy and privately owned small businesses would suffer if the automatic cuts in federal spending in the sequester take effect, ...
View ArticleHouse GOP rips Obama as ‘road show president’
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his leadership team returned to Washington in attack mode on Monday, putting the onus on President Obama to hammer out ...
View ArticleObama warns of ‘self-inflicted’ wound
President Obama on Tuesday traveled to a Navy shipyard in Newport News, Va., to argue allowing $85 billion in spending cuts to be triggered was ...
View ArticleBoehner says no new taxes after sequester meeting in White House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Republicans will not agree to any new tax hikes to replace the sequester after a White House meeting on Friday. ...
View ArticleBoehner-Obama Deals Produce $2.5T New Debt in 2 Years; $21,817 Per Household
The federal debt has increased $2.5 trillion over the past two years, during a time when federal spending has been governed by a series of ...
View ArticlePoll: 85 Percent of Americans Support Requiring a Balanced Federal Budget
In case you were wondering why Senate Republicans pushed so hard for the Sessions amendment last night, knowing full well that it didn’t stand a ...
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