Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
John Andrew Boehner ( ; born , 1949) is the 61st and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The GOP House leadership has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding he comply with a subpoena ordering him to provide more documents about the failed Obama administration gun-tracking program known as Fast and Furious.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program was created to send thousands of guns across the Mexico border to suspected arms dealers with the expectation that they would lead to organizers of Mexican drug cartels, allowing the U.S. to track arms smuggling.However, the weapons reportedly turned up in street crimes across Mexico. Hundreds reportedly remain missing, but at least two were found at the scene of a 2010 gun fight between smugglers and the U.S. Border Patrol in which Agent Brian Terry was fatally shot."The American people deserve to know how such a fundamentally flawed operation could have continued for so long and have a full accounting of who knew of and approved an operation that placed weapons in the hands of drug cartels,...WASHINGTON -- With Democrats in control of Congress, much of the debate over the sweeping health care reform pushed by President Obama has focused on what proposals ...
Rep . John Boehner on why higher taxes will stunt job growth
Rep . John Boehner says the president is already back to his old rhetoric
The Treasury secretary warned that even the appearance that the government might default on its debts was "unthinkable," and urged lawmakers to act swiftly so as to ...
The following is a transcript of a Special Report interview between Fox News' Bret Baier and House Speaker John Boehner.BRET BAIER , HOST: As we told you a moment ag...
Republicans were poised Wednesday to bash a Democratic-run commission that investigated the financial meltdown, when Democrats counterpunched with a report that shar...
A new memoir to be published later this month by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann faults President George W. Bush for having come to embrace, late ...
WASHINGTON -- Lame-duck sessions are usually unpopular and unproductive. Nothing suggests otherwise this year.Seven weeks ahead of the GOP House takeover, hobbled De...
A Sunday New York Times article portrayed House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, as "especially" indebted to lobbyists, a condition touted by White House Press ...
The 112th Congress brings a lot of new numbers to Washington, including 94 freshman, of which 85 are Republicans and nine are Democrats. In total, 242 House members ...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's party could lose its majority in the House of Representatives in this November's elections, his spokesman said Sunday, perhaps trying...
WASHINGTON -- Golf-loving Rep. John Boehner , says playing 18 holes with someone is a good way to get to that person. That might be hint from the House speaker-in-wa...
House minority leader on Obama's rush for health care reform; Gov. Sanford's scandal
Rep . John Boehner on agreement between House and Senate
Now that President Barack Obama is back on U.S. soil, the criticism of his remark to the Russians about postelection flexibility on missile defense came fast and fur...
John Boehner, who as House Republican leader is in line to take over as speaker next year, told Fox News on Thursday he expects a "whale of a fight" with President O...
Rep . John Boehner declares House 'state of emergency'
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is gearing up for next week's visit by Chinese vice president Xi Jinping, who is expected to become the country's next leader,...
Republicans and Democrats in Congress found a compromise way Thursday night out of a deeply partisan standoff that threatened millions of Americans with a big New Y...