The House Judiciary Committee has announced that Congress will hold its first hearing on the Planned Parenthood scandal next week, following the recess. Among the witnesses to provide testimony are two women who survived abortion attempts; they will speak from first-hand experience about the horrors of the abortion industry.
Though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress is without means to defund Planned Parenthood until a new president is in the White House, leading House Republicans still plan to schedule a vote to end taxpayer support for the nation’s largest abortion provider when House members return to Washington next week.
More than 70 Ohio pastors in House Speaker John Boehner’s district are begging him to transfer federal funds away from Planned Parenthood, whose leadership was recently caught on video describing their gruesome organs-for-cash business.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) came on Breitbart News Sunday to discuss why he initiated a “motion to vacate the chair” aimed to oust Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) as the GOP leader in the House of Representatives.
“Going after Ted Cruz is just reflective of how he’s led in the style Obama has led, which is basically take the people who disagree with you and attack them,” Winteregg told Breitbart News about Boehner. “Sadly, he’s not someone who’s fighting against the president, he’s someone who is fighting against good conservatives like Ted Cruz.”
House Speaker John Boehner attended a Colorado fundraiser Wednesday with roughly 100 attendees, where two people are claiming Boehner referred to GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as a “jackass,” The Daily Caller reports.
As the controversy over taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood is likely to heat up when the House of Representatives’ recess ends, Speaker John Boehner’s health policy adviser – who is also the sister of Cate Dyer, CEO of StemExpress, which has partnered with Planned Parenthood – has quietly resigned from her position on Boehner’s staff.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner dismissed a move this week by a Republican member to oust him from his post as “no big deal.” But rumbles on the Right have clearly moved the Speaker off his game—his golf game.
Members on the floor of the United States House of Representatives are discussing the future of Speaker John Boehner, and the talks must be troubling to House Leadership.
StemExpress, located in Placerville, California, describes itself as “a multi-million dollar company that supplies human blood, tissue products, primary cells and other clinical specimens to biomedical researchers.” The company says it “offers the largest variety of raw material in the industry, as well as fresh, fixed and cryopreserved human primary cells.” In response to Breitbart News’ request for comment, Emily Schillinger, Boehner’s press secretary, said, “Charlotte Ivancic is a dedicated public servant who enjoys the utmost respect among her peers and Members of Congress. She has the Speaker’s complete trust and confidence in both her work and her character.”
The Associated Press reports that world powers will announce a formal deal with Iran in Vienna on Monday. Though there are still minor details to be finalized, the two diplomats who spoke to the AP confirmed that a deal will be reached, though they “cautioned that final details of the pact were still being worked out and a formal agreement still awaits a review from the capitals of the seven nations at the talks.”
“I think the chairman made the right decision. I made it clear to the members I supported that decision,” Boehner said, according to The Hill. “I’m sure the family conversation will continue.”
Even though Republicans won a majority of Congressional seats in 2014, Cruz says powerful career politicians and lobbyists make up “The Washington Cartel” because they benefit from big government at the expense of everyday Americans.
“In America, we don’t retaliate against people for expressing their views,” Rep. Buck told Breitbart News of the rumored pending punishment. “We don’t retaliate by calling a meeting with one day’s notice to remove someone from office without any explanation.”
“Our goal is to get [Trade Promotion Authority] and [Trade Adjustment Assistance] to the president’s desk this week and deliver this win for the American people,” Boehner said in a statement Tuesday morning.
At the direction of Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz stripped North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows of his subcommittee chairmanship, just days after he broke with leadership on the House floor by voting against a party-line procedural motion.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) have both said passing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to give President Obama fast-track authority to finish his trade negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade in Services Act (TiSA) is the only way for Congress and the public to see what is in Obama’s trade deals
Thursday at his weekly press briefing, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) lashed out when a reporter asked if funding was an issue on the heels of this week’s tragic crash of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia, killing 7 and injuring hundreds.
The House Benghazi Select Committee lacks “the authority under House rules to subpoena” Hillary Clinton’s email server, chairman Trey Gowdy says. He needs House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to step in to help.
Conservative J.D. Winteregg says he’ll primary House Speaker John Boehner in Ohio.
Thursday at his weekly press briefing, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama is an “anti-war president” who is allowing Yemen to fall into a proxy war of Islam in the Middle East between Iranian backed Shia forces
Tuesday Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) called on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to turn over the server that houses her emails from her time with the State Department. Boehner said, “The American people deserve all the
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called out President Obama for warning immigration enforcement officials against failing to comply with his executive amnesty.
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insists the House will hold the line in the fight against President Obama’s executive amnesty, even as a Friday DHS funding deadline looms.
Wednesday at the Republican House leadership press conference, when asked about the political battle over funding the Department of Homeland Security Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) repeated several times “I’m waiting for the Senate to act.” He added, “The House has
House Speaker John Boehner says he’s not surprised that a court has issued a temporary injunction suspending the president’s executive amnesty, and adds this should empower the Senate to take up a House-passed DHS funding measure.
House Speaker John Boehner has an earthy message for Senate Democrats. He wants to know “when they are going to get off their ass and do something other than to vote ‘no!'” on a DHS funding bill that passed the House last month.
The leader of the Senate says his body cannot move on a DHS funding bill, so the next step would be up to the House.
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House Speaker John Boehner has announced that Pope Francis will address the United States Congress.
House Speaker John Boehner again called on Senate Democrats who have expressed opposition to Obama’s executive amnesty to follow through and vote to allow legislation blocking the executive actions proceed to debate.
Pope Francis will speak to a joint session of Congress in September.
As the debate heats up across the nation over the renewal of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), House Speaker John Boehner – writer of the original NCLB law – says he supports annual statewide testing, which also has the support of House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline (R-MN).
The speech that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver to a special joint session of the US Congress in March will be the most important address by an Israeli leader in the history of the Jewish state.
After calling John Boehner’s admission that “there have been a couple of stumbles” in the new Congress a “dry understatement,” the establishment-friendly Washington Post goes on to note what most in the GOP base already know: the establishment GOP is less than impressive when it comes to governing.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to task Thursday for his unexpected invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. The California lawmaker also expressed concerns about the proximity of the speech to the Israeli elections.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has rewarded Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of the most well known candidates who challenged him in his successful effort to be re-elected Speaker, with a powerful Subcommittee Chairmanship.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says the threats against House Speaker John Boehner’s life show a need for more gun control now.