john boehner

Boston Globe: "Brown’s resurgence in polls has shaken some of party’s confidence in Warren"

It has been 1,000 days since the Senate has produced a budget, and congressional Republicans are getting fed up.

Yesterday, 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."

The Hill: "Boehner: 'Great concerns' Obama is exceeding Constitution"

James Pethokoukis: "For liberals, income inequality is the new global warming"

ABC News: "President Obama Phones Speaker Boehner; Gets an Earful"

David Moore: "The Panhandler and the President"

President 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.

Speaker 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.

Politico: "W.H. furious over speech delay'"

Tablet: "U.N. Flotilla Report Confirms Israeli Stance"

In 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.

One 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: 

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.

House 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.