Why the Grand Bargain Had to Die
Why did the "grand bargain" between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to raise the debt ceiling and overhaul entitlements and the tax code fail back in August?
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Why did the "grand bargain" between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to raise the debt ceiling and overhaul entitlements and the tax code fail back in August?
House Speaker John Boehner split with his fellow Republican John McCain in saying military action in Syria was "premature," a position similar to the one he took on Libya last year but that this time puts him on the same side of the debate as President Barack Obama.
House Speaker John Beohner's plan to extend the payroll tax cut without paying for it has inflamed some rank-and-file Republicans, and Senate Democrats are adding fuel to the fire.
Speaker of the House John Boehner made a floor speech Wednesday vowing to repeal the Obama Administration's rule requiring some Catholic-affiliated organizations to offer health care coverage that includes birth control.
The good news that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent is particularly bad news for Mitt Romney, whose gloom-and-doom campaign message has been that only he can turn around President Obama's economic disaster. That's a harder case to make when the economy is already turning around.
President Obama proposed a new plan to allow people to refinance their mortgages Wednesday which Speaker John Boehner wasted no time in criticizing.
House Speaker John Boehner has dismissed President Obama's campaign against a do-nothing Congress by saying "most Americans think we’ve got too many laws already," but Boehner's underlings don't think so.
It's really hard to get a real sense of the way the president delivered the State of the Union address without watching it, but the speeches are so long they're almost impossible to sit through.
The fight over the payroll tax cut accomplished almost nothing in terms of real world policy changes, but has provided the president with a huge political victory heading into 2012.
House Republicans managed to turn President Obama into a tax cutter in an election year while getting blamed for opposing something they'll probably pass anyway, The Wall Street Journal complains in an editorial.
House Speaker John Boehner says House Republicans are united against a Senate bill to extend the payroll tax holiday but that may be the only way the majority in Congress's lower chamber is unified.
A bipartisan Senate approved a two-month extension of the current payroll tax cut on Saturday, but House Speaker John Boehner says the House won't go along.
With one week left until Congress is scheduled to adjourn for holiday recess, Senate Democrats are considering dropping a millionaire surtax designed to pay for a payroll tax break to 160 million Americans.
Defying President Obama's threat to veto a payroll tax extension tied to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project, House Speaker Boehner told colleagues today that the GOP would include the provision anyway.
Conservatives like anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist and agree with him on principle, but they do not like the idea of Democrats using him in powerful attack ads.
The legislators knew it was coming and they came out guns blazing.
House Speaker John Boehner appeared flummoxed when he was asked about anti-tax activist Grover Norquist's influence on his party, waiting five seconds before answering, "It's not often I'm asked about some random person."
With less than a month to go before the deadline to produce a debt deal, it appears that the Congressional deficit-reduction committee is nowhere close to a deal.
President Obama hasn't been able to put enough pressure on House Republicans to get them to pass his jobs bill -- or to pass pieces of his jobs bill -- so his next step in his anti-"do-nothing Congress" campaign is to use the executive order.
House Republican leaders are afraid to punish conservative congressmen for not toeing the line because they'll turn them into martyrs, but they don't have much to reward them with either.
Neither the GOP and Democratic strategies for 2012 depended on the jobs bill passing
The Houses passes a disaster relief bill that Senate Democrats can't stand
Pundits say the the President's latest deficit speech dropped the milquetoast schtick
A Tea Party activist from Ohio will challenge the Republican Speaker in 2012
The House Speaker called Obama's high-profile effort a "poor substitute for pro-growth policies"
The bipartisan niceness melted away once specifics were offered
Before Obama's speech, Boehner and Biden are caught talking golf on a hot mic
Obama will give a speech on a Thursday, not a Wednesday. This is a very big deal.
Plus: Kris Humphries and Ray J experience the most uncomfortable encounter in human history
President opts to go head-to-head with the NFL instead of GOP deabte
Obama's looking to steal spotlight from Perry's coming out party
After they were detonated, police determined they contained paper not explosives
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have made their picks for the debt deal committee
In joint statement, Boehner and Pelosi say end of program saves $5 million
Cool cats in Congress celebrate raising the debt ceiling
McConnell wanted to protect Boehner as he and Biden worked out a plan
Now leaders must get reluctant House Republicans and Democrats to vote for it
Mitch McConnell tells Congress, "U.S.A. will not default."
The dramatic next 24 hours
The sweeteners Boehner had to add to get Tea Party Republican votes
Massachusetts Republican tells Boston area radio station he'd vote for Reid's bill
Rush Limbaugh, Erick Erickson, and Charles Krauthammer are issuing GOP directives
He can get the bill through the House only if he makes it impossible to pass in the Senate
Four days until debt deadline and the Senate needs at least three days to pass a bill
The Times catches the resigned legislator peacefully smoking a stogie
The only bill that can pass the House will be so conservative it'll scare off some Republican senators
Plus: Tim Robbins has a fan
House Speaker Boehner may not have the votes to pass his debt bill
Dueling press conferences set up a House-Senate showdown for tonight
Pre-vote rally call: "Let's go out there and kick the s--- out of them!"
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