List/Grid Tag Archives: John Boehner
Obama Takes a Bathroom Break
President Barack Obama took a bathroom break on March 11th. It was unplanned and took longer than expected. The President had some bad sushi for dinner. While the President was…
Obama Gets Serious About Gun Control
The Obama administration is looking for ways to change the nation’s gun laws strictly by using executive action. The current Congress, led by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), has expressed strong…
House Approves Short-Term Spending Measure
The House approved another stop-gap spending bill on Tuesday, funding the government for another three weeks until April 8. The measure provides an additional $6 billion in budget cuts and…
Obama to Blame for Rising Gas Prices?
In the latest round of “Blame the President for Everything”, there is a growing chorus of GOP lawmakers that are now accusing President Obama of somehow being behind the growing…
Senate Rejects Government Funding Bill
Not surprisingly, Senate Democrats voted down a House Republican bill on Wednesday that would have cut $57 billion from current funding levels. The bill would have continued to fund the…
Governmental Shutdown Avoided Temporarily
In an effort to avoid a governmental shutdown, the House has approved a temporary stopgap spending bill. On Tuesday, the House passed a two-week spending bill would cut federal spending…
Senate Democrats Identify Spending Cuts
Democratic leaders and members of the Appropriations Committee met on Thursday to try to reach an agreement on spending cuts to propose to the GOP. The meeting was an attempt…
Congressional Democrats Seek to End DOMA
The Obama administration announced that it would no longer legally defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court because it believes the federal law is unconstitutional. The announcement, made…
House Passes Spending Bill
After passing a flurry of amendments designed to hurt working people and cut domestic spending, the House Republicans passed a spending bill during an all night session that ended early…
Protesters Outside of Boehner’s Apartment Claim GOP is “Treading on DC”
Twenty protesters gathered outside of Speaker of the House John Boehner’s Washington area apartment on Thursday morning. The protesters, organized by D.C. Vote, used Boehner’s Tea Party rhetoric against him. …
Democrats to Republicans: “Where are the jobs?”
The Democrats are finally pointing out the glaring inconsistencies that are pouring out of the Republican Party. Republicans campaigned during last election cycle by promising jobs and mocking the Democratic-controlled…
Boehner Threatens Government Shutdown “Read My Lips…”
Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) is taking a page from the late 80’s. Promising Americans that he was going to cut spending, even if that meant a government…
House Defeats Boehner’s Fighter Jets as Pure Pork
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to defy Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). A bipartisan coalition, including just over half of GOP freshmen, voted against an estimated total $3 billion…
Republican Leadership Not Ruling out Spending Cuts to Medicare and Social Security
Republicans are not ruling out possible cuts to Social Security and Medicare in their upcoming 2012 budget proposal. Although there is some division within the party, Speaker of the House…
Republican Leadership Surprised by Tea Party
The Republican leadership in Washington received a cold, hard dose of reality this past week as the staunch conservatives and Tea Party members newly elected to Congress failed to follow…
