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The House Sends $26 Billion Public Sector Jobs Bill to Obama

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a $26 billion bill that Democrats say will save the jobs of over 300,000 school teachers, municipal workers and first responders such as police officers and firefighters. The measure's passage hands President Barack Obama a key election-year victory as he seeks to convince...

Rep. Boehner's Floor Speech Before the House Health Care Vote

(March 21) The following is a transcript of House Republican Leader John Boehner's remarks before the House voted on health care reform. HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN BOEHNER: Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, I rise tonight with a sad and heavy heart. Today, we should be standing together, reflecting on a year of...

Ticktock ... Morning on Capitol Hill as Vote Nears

WASHINGTON (March 19) -- As the countdown clock begins winding down today to this weekend's historic vote on health care, staffers on Capitol Hill prepare for a day that looks very much like the day before and the day before that. "Whaddaya think? Get outta here by 11?" one Hill staffer says to another as they ride an...

Opinion: Democrats Are Listening to the American People

(Feb. 25) -- On Thursday, I sat down with President Obama and my congressional colleagues from both parties to try to find a way out of the health care crisis threatening our families and businesses. It was a time to face facts none of us can deny: that insurance premiums more than doubled last decade, with no sign of...

Opinion: Health Care Bill Will Destroy Jobs

(Nov. 6) -- The federal government reported today that thousands of Americans lost their jobs last month. Earlier this year, President Obama presented the trillion dollar "stimulus" to the American people as a plan that would put people back to work immediately, but since it became law, our economy has lost more than 3...

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John Boehner Trumps Nancy Pelosi By Raising $70 Million As House Speaker

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has raised more than $70 million for Republicans since winning the Speaker's gavel, easily topping his fundraising haul for the previous two years in the minority.

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Mary Landrieu: Republicans Privately Support Revenue Hikes In Debt Ceiling Deal

Republicans may publicly trash the idea of including new revenues in a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, but they say otherwise in private, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Monday.

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Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions

WASHINGTON -Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt.

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Nancy Pelosi: Speaker John Boehner 'Wants To Go Over The Edge'

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday of "want[ing] to go over the edge" when it comes to negotiations to keep the government from defaulting on its debts.

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Boehner Goes After Eduardo Saverin, Backs Bill Banning Him From U.S.

Eduardo Saverin's decision to renounce his United States citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes on his Facebook stock was "absolutely outrageous," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC's George Stephanopolous on "This Week." Boehner said that his move was "already against the law," likely referring to...

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05/28/12 Debt-Ceiling Deja Vu Could Sink Economy Source: Bloomberg.com Yet the biggest threat to the emerging U.S. economic recovery may be Congress.
05/24/12 Pelosi Breaks Rank, Advocates Bush Era Tax Cuts Source: Newsmax.com House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has broken with President Barack Obama and called for extending the Bush tax cuts to those making $1 million or less.
05/24/12 "Fiscal cliff" could knock 6.5% off America's Q1 and... Source: New Statesman The American Congressional Budget Office (the inspiration for our own Office of Budget Responsibility) has released a report warning that the impact of the upcoming "fiscal cliff" would be to wipe 4 per cent from GDP growth for 2013.
05/24/12 Wrong fight to have now Source: The Daily Herald - Everett WA That Congress is locked in a state of dysfunction is not news.
05/23/12 Groups to protest outside Herrera Beutler campaign... Source: The Columbian - Vancouver WA MoveOn.org and Occupy Vancouver are planning a peaceful demonstration on Friday outside of U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler's closed-door campaign kickoff fundraiser, which will feature U.S. House Speaker John Boehner as a guest.