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By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Rivals in a divided government, President Barack Obama and the most powerful Republican in Congress split their differences to stave off a federal shutdown that neither combatant was willing to risk. Their compromise is the result of a battle pitting the enduring power of the presidential veto and the White House soapbox - despite a "shellacking" in the last election - against a strong-willed GOP House speaker vaulted into office by a voter revolt against Washington's free-spending ways. AP / Getty Images President Obama successfully forced Republicans to push aside ...
Newt Gingrich Launches Website to Explore 2012 Presidential Run
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich took one step closer to launching a White House bid Thursday, unveiling a website that will explore the viability of his candidacy, but stopping short of forming an official exploratory committee. During a news conference in Atlanta, Gingrich said he and his wife Callista were "very seriously" considering a presidential run and the site, NewtExplore2012.com, will help "methodically lay out the framework of what we do next." Related Stories Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich Suspended by Fox News, Citing Possible White House Runs Newt Gingrich Inching ...
Opinion Roundup: Will 'So Be It' Comment Hurt Boehner?
By not in system - AOL NewsAt a news conference on Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner answered a question about federal job loss in the event that House Republicans enact billions of dollars in discretionary spending cuts. "Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs," Boehner said. "And if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We're broke. It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money." From the Atlantic Wire Boehner's words -- "so be it" -- have been splashed across any number of websites ...
Speaker Boehner Declines Third Straight Obama State Dinner
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIn May 2007, then-House Minority Leader John Boehner and his wife, Deborah, attended a glittery White House state dinner for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip hosted by President and Mrs. Bush. The dress for men was white tie and tailcoat, more formal than the customary tuxedo. Cabinet members, business leaders, diplomats and politicians -- Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, a Republican, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat -- were also there, along with former First Lady Nancy Reagan, golfer Arnold Palmer and jockey Calvin Borel, who rode the 2007 Kentucky Derby winner. Fast ...
Boehner Gets the Gavel: Look, My Eyes Are Dry! (The Gift Is Ours to Borrow)
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyMelinda Henneberger: I think I speak for a bipartisan majority when I say how relieved I was for John Boehner that our often emotional new House speaker kept it together during his acceptance speech on Wednesday. We may have his predecessor to thank for that; in her final moments in the job, Nancy Pelosi recited the many accomplishments of the 111th Congress -- a curtain call that peeved some conservatives. Then she ended her historic tenure by remarking upon the unusually large gavel John Boehner had chosen for himself. Though the implied joke (Is that a gavel in your pocket, or are you just ...
Boehner's Role Model? Nick Longworth, Gentleman From Ohio Circa 1925
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFor years, House Speaker John Boehner gazed at a portrait on his office wall of an old-fashioned looking guy with a bushy mustache -- Nicholas Longworth, the last Ohioan to hold the speaker's office and a role model for Boehner. Like Longworth, Boehner grew up in Cincinnati, served in the Ohio legislature, then set off on a slow but steady rise to power on Capitol Hill. Both men had to deal with ideological divides in their own party and pesky liberals on the Democratic side, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. And both enjoyed a good time. The well-liked Longworth, elected speaker in 1925, ...
Pelosi Gets Thumbs Down From 19 Fellow Democrats
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- It was no surprise that Ohio Rep. John Boehner would be elected speaker of the House in the new Republican-controlled chamber today. What was surprising was that the old speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was not the choice of 19 of her fellow Democrats. In the end, Pelosi was elected leader of the House Democrats. But in what could be called the last bark of the much-diminished Blue Dog coalition, 11 Democrats voted for North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler. The conservative former football star had run for re-election on a vow not to vote for the San Francisco liberal for speaker and had made ...
Republican John Boehner Elected House Speaker
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Rep. John Boehner was elected speaker of the House, sealing newfound Republican power-sharing in Congress and drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era at the helm. Cheers broke out among GOP lawmakers on the House floor on Wednesday as Boehner, a veteran lawmaker from Ohio, defeated Pelosi in the roll call for speaker. His rise to the helm of the House was virtually guaranteed months ago, when the midterm elections returned Republicans to control of the House, which they had surrendered to Democrats four years ago. Pelosi was the first woman to rise to the ...
John Boehner's House Party -- and the Limits of a Speaker's Power
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt is the rarest event in modern American democracy -- the peaceful transfer of power from one party to another in the House of Representatives. When Republican John Boehner claims the gavel from Democrat Nancy Pelosi at noon Wednesday to become the 61st speaker of the House, it will mark only the third party shift since 1955 in the congressional body supposedly most responsive to the voters. Everything else in the capital changes (control of the Senate has ping-ponged eight times since 1955, counting three turnovers in 2001 alone), but the House endures as Washington's answer to the Rock of ...
John Boehner: Dems Holding 'Chicken Crap' Vote on Tax Cuts [VIDEO]
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- Such language! At his weekly press conference today, soon-to-be Speaker of the House John Boehner had an interesting choice of words on the political maneuvering of his Democratic colleagues. "I'm trying to catch my breath so I don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right?' Boehner said. "But this is nonsense." House Democrats have called for a straight up-or-down vote on whether people defined as wealthy, or those making $250,000 per year or more, deserve to have Bush-era tax breaks left in place. Today, the House was scheduled to vote on President ...
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