Speaker Boehner on Washington Democrats: Where Is Their Plan to Cut Spending?
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made the following remarks on the House floor today:“Mr. Speaker, there is a huge gulf between Washington, DC and the American people. They are dealing with tough...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner on PBS: Senate Dems Stalling Jobs Bills, “Want No Part of...
In an interview with PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, Speaker John Boehner discussed Senate Democrats' unwillingness to act on bipartisan initiatives that help create new private-sector jobs or stop...
View ArticleDemocrats Upset with House GOP for Cutting Spending
Senate Democrats, who haven’t offered a budget in more than 1,000 days, are upset with Republicans for wanting to stop Washington from spending money it doesn’t have. They say the GOP is “ignoring” or...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner: House Will Vote to Extend Student Loan Rates, Cut ObamaCare...
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today announced the House will vote this Friday to extend the current interest rates on federal student loans, paid for by eliminating a slush fund in the president’s...
View ArticleJust Along for the Ride: Democrats Not Even Trying to Cut Spending, Create Jobs
Republicans are working to reduce our deficit and protect America’s national security this week by replacing an automatic “sequester” the Obama administration says would “devastate” our military. At a...
View ArticleBoehner on CNN: No Reason to Wait, Let’s Address Spending-Driven Debt Now
In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett following remarks to the Paul G. Peterson Foundation’s Fiscal Summit, Speaker John Boehner said there’s no reason to wait until we reach the debt limit to enact...
View ArticleBoehner on CBS: ObamaCare Hurts Small Businesses, Must Be Ripped Out By Its...
With millions of Americans out of work and wages stagnant, Speaker John Boehner told CBS News Face the Nation the president’s health care law is driving up costs and making it harder for small...
View ArticleBecome a “Citizen Cosponsor” of Audit the Fed Bill
Today the House will consider the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 459), bipartisan legislation by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) that requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a full...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner: House & Senate to Pass Six-Month CR in September
WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement announcing that House and Senate leaders had reached an agreement to consider a six-month continuing resolution (CR)...
View ArticleVP Biden Says Budgets Reflect Values - Ignores Fact Nobody Backed President...
Quoting his father at a campaign rally today, Vice President Joe Biden said, “Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.” That’s interesting, because President Obama’s budget is a...
View ArticleStatement by Speaker Boehner as National Debt Surpasses $16 Trillion
WASHINGTON, DC– House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement today after the United States Treasury Department announced the national debt has now surpassed $16 trillion, having...
View ArticleKeeping the Pledge to America: How Republicans Have Fought to Create Jobs,...
On September 23, 2010, House Republicans gathered at a family-owned business in northern Virginia and issued a Pledge to America– a governing agenda built by listening to the American people and...
View ArticlePro-Growth Tax Reform: The 1986 Experience
In remarks today on averting the president’s “fiscal cliff,” Speaker John Boehner cited the bipartisan Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a model for how Republicans and Democrats can work together to pave the...
View ArticleGallup Survey Shows Americans Favor Republican Approach to Averting Fiscal Cliff
A new Gallup survey out today shows a strong majority of Americans favor simplifying the tax code by lowering rates and closing loopholes (70%), saving our biggest entitlement programs (88%), and...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Renew Earmark Ban for 113th Congress
The House Republican majority in the House of Representatives has renewed the landmark ban on earmarks for the 113th Congress.Speaker John Boehner “has been a longtime proponent of the earmark ban,”...
View ArticleOut On a Limb: Dems’ “Destructive Refusal” to Cut Spending “Could Complicate”...
In an effort to avert the “fiscal cliff” without hurting our economy, Republicans have offered to accept new revenue demanded by Democrats if it comes from tax reform and is tied to needed spending...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner, GOP Leaders Meet with Erskine Bowles &‘Fix the Debt’ Coalition
WASHINGTON, DC– House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican leaders today met with former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and the “Fix the Debt” coalition of business leaders to...
View ArticleWhere are Democrats’ Spending Cuts?
As today’s news shows, it’s not Republicans who are standing in the way of the balanced solution President Obama wants for the fiscal cliff – his own party won’t get serious about cutting spending:In...
View ArticleWhite House “Not Serious at All” About Averting Fiscal Cliff
Three weeks after Republicans outlined a balanced, popular framework for averting the fiscal cliff by cutting spending and reforming our tax code, the White House finally made its offer: a...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner Says White House Fiscal Cliff Offer is "Nonsense," Calls for...
On Fox News Sunday, Speaker John Boehner said Republicans have offered a balanced approach to averting the fiscal cliff but the president is "not being serious about coming to an agreement." Boehner...
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