John Boehner Rejects Obama's Grand Bargain On Debt Ceiling
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner is rejecting President Obama's offer to make historic cuts to the federal government and the social safety ne...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner is rejecting President Obama's offer to make historic cuts to the federal government and the social safety ne...
AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 07.23.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are targeting domestic nutrition programs and international food assistance as they try to control spending in next ye...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.12.2011
WASHINGTON -- It was a tough-talking House Speaker John Boehner who warned Wall Street this week that Congress won't raise the government's debt ceili...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2011
WASHINGTON - House Speaker John Boehner is insisting tax increases are "off the table" in negotiations with the Obama administration and congressional...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR and SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 07.09.2011
NEW YORK — The top Republican in Congress wants trillions of dollars in spending cuts as part of must-pass legislation allowing the federal gove...
Posted 06.05.2011
(Reuters) - Washington braced for a shutdown as Republican and Democratic lawmakers headed to the White House on Tuesday in an attempt to reach a bu...
Posted 06.05.2011
WASHINGTON--Washington is hurtling toward a government shutdown on Friday night as the time to agree on a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year ...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.05.2011
WASHINGTON — Prodded by an insistent President Barack Obama, Congress' top two lawmakers sought to reinvigorate compromise talks Tuesday aimed a...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.04.2011
WASHINGTON — Republican officials say GOP lawmakers are ready with another short-term spending bill if needed to avoid a government shutdown thr...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.04.2011
WASHINGTON — With budget talks deadlocked, House Republicans drafted a one-week bill Monday night to cut spending by $12 billion, fully fund the...
Roll Call | John Stanton & Anna Palmer | Posted 06.04.2011
House Republican leaders are privately warning Speaker John Boehner that they may not have the votes to pass a six-month spending bill with significan...
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 06.04.2011
WASHINGTON — Political ideologies and government spending realities are speeding trains headed toward a nasty crash in Washington this week barr...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 06.03.2011
WASHINGTON — Sometimes in politics and legislation, whether you win is less important than how you win. That's the dilemma facing House Speaker...
AP | DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.31.2011
WASHINGTON — Despite fresh pressure from tea party conservatives, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that Republicans "can't impose our wi...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.30.2011
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden reported "good progress" Wednesday in budget talks to prevent a government shutdown next week as congressi...
The Los Angeles Times | Lisa Mascaro | Posted 05.30.2011
With a government shutdown deadline just days away, House Speaker John A. Boehner faces a fateful choice over whether to abandon conservative Republic...
AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- The specter of a partial government shutdown looms again as Congress returns to Washington with Democrats and Republicans as far apart o...
The New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 05.25.2011
After being granted three weeks to cut what has been an elusive budget deal, Speaker John A. Boehner is navigating the unchartered territory between l...
AP | ERIK SCHELZIG | Posted 05.25.2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — House Speaker John Boehner in a speech to religious broadcasters on Sunday called it a "moral responsibility" to rein in the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.08.2011