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 5:30 PM, May 10, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Hill reports:
The House voted Thursday to override steep cuts to the Pentagon’s budget mandated by last summer's debt deal and replace them with spending reductions to food stamps and other mandatory social programs.
While doomed in the Senate and opposed by the White House, the legislation, which would reduce the deficit by $243 billion, is a Republican marker for post-election budget talks with the White House.
Members approved the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act in a party-line 218-199 vote. As expected, the bill was supported by nearly all Republicans — only 16 opposed it, and no Democrats supported it.
In a statement, House speaker John Boehner praised the bill's passage. "We should not punish our troops for Washington’s failures," Boehner said. "Today’s passage of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act takes action to ensure those who defend America have the resources they need to fight and defeat the many clear and emerging threats that exist in the world today. The House’s action today replaces automatic defense cuts — cuts the Obama administration accurately said were ‘devastating’ to our military — with sensible spending cuts and reforms that reduce the deficit."
The GOP calls out the "Do-Nothing Democrats" in the Senate. 8:30 AM, Jan 24, 2012 • By KATE HAVARDIt has been 1,000 days since the Senate has produced a budget, and congressional Republicans are getting fed up.
Read more... 1:07 PM, Nov 8, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERA press release from Speaker of the House John Boehner's office announces "a list of 132 American economists who believe the job creation strategy used in the House GOP Plan for America’s Job Creators will do more to boost private-sector job growth in America in both the near-term and long-term than the “stimulus” spending approach favored by President Obama."
Read more... 12:14 PM, Nov 2, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERYesterday, when the president was asked whether Americans are better off now than they were four years ago, he responded: "Well, you know, I think that we are better off now than we would have been if I hadn't taken all the steps that we took."
Read more... 11:00 AM, Sep 23, 2011 • By DAVID WOLFFORDPresident Obama arrived in Cincinnati Thursday afternoon to tout his newest bill meant to stimulate the economy with billions of dollars in infrastructure investment for job creation. The Obama team chose the “functionally obsolete” Brent Spence Bridge connecting Kentucky and Ohio, and the still concrete trucks at the local Hilltop Concrete company for the event’s symbolic backdrop. The president arrived in Cincinnati for two reasons: one, to gain support in the backyards of two chief Republican critics—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, and two, he appeared on the northern banks of the river in swing state Ohio in an early quest for electoral votes in a key battleground.
Read more... 4:25 PM, Sep 19, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENPresident Barack Obama, in a speech in the Rose Garden this morning, reiterated his belief that taxes must increase on "millionaires and billionaires" in the supercommittee's deficit reduction agreement. "Now, we’re already hearing the usual defenders of these kinds of loopholes saying this is just 'class warfare,'" Obama said.
Read more... 10:08 AM, Sep 19, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERSpeaker of the House John Boehner reiterated his commitment to Israel yesterday, in a speech given at the Jewish National Fund’s 2011 National Conference in Cincinnati. Boehner's speech is particularly timely, considering that the Palestinians will seek statehood at United Nations later this week. Here's the text (save the lengthy introduction):
“Like you, I have read suggestions by newspaper columnists and observers that events have overtaken Israel … that Israel is ‘isolating itself’ in the Middle East.
“That view is wrong, and always has been wrong.
Read more... 6:14 PM, Aug 31, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENIn a letter sent earlier today to House speaker John Boehner and Senate majority leader Harry Reid, President Barack Obama requested to address a joint session of Congress to deliver his jobs plan on September 7, the first day the House of Representatives will be back from recess and the same evening as the Republican presidential debate in California. House speaker John Boehner has now responded to the president's request with a letter to Obama asking that the president give his speech the next day, on September 8.
Read more... And move to prevent the rise of the next Barack Obama.1:13 PM, Aug 31, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPEROne would not expect that college campuses would go out of their way to accommodate the habits of the Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner. But how respectful are colleges of the current occupant of the White House? Not very, it would seem.
CNN reports:
Read more... Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, Jim Jordan, and Bill Bennett encourage Ryan to run for president.11:31 AM, Aug 17, 2011 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES
As Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan comes to a final decision about running for president, several top national conservatives are encouraging him to join the race. Ryan, who has been seriously but quietly considering a presidential bid for several months, is expected to decide on a run in the next two weeks.
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels hopes he runs. “If there were a Paul Ryan fan club, I'd be a national officer,” Daniels said in a phone interview Wednesday morning.
Read more... 11:47 AM, Aug 10, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENHouse speaker John Boehner has chosen Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas to be co-chair of the joint select committee on deficit reduction, or the so-called supercommittee. Reps. Dave Camp and Fred Upton, both of Michigan, were also selected by Boehner to represent the House Republicans on the supercommittee. Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has chosen fellow senators Jon Kyl of Arizona, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, and Rob Portman of Ohio as the GOP Senate representatives.
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