United States House of Representatives Archives

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Mitch McConnell’s Astonishing Failure to Do His Job Revealed by the Numbers

Rather than “big things” we have been treated to a clinic on entropy; a lot of “big words” rather than “big things,” and very little action

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John Boehner Says He is Proud of His Accomplishments

Boehner lists his dubious accomplishments, but forgets all those failed Obamacare votes and Benghazi investigations and lies about the rest

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Boehner and McConnell Balance Their Budget on the Backs of the American People

Republicans are making much of their “balanced” budget but this “work harder for less” budget is not really balanced at all

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After Voting to Strip it From DC Residents, Boehner Claims to Champion Religious Freedom

“America was founded on the principle of religious freedom.” It’s just a shame he thinks only corporations have that freedom

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John Boehner Says We Finally Have a Senate That is Actually Working

Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.

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Boehner Attempts to Undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Republicans are more than willing to waste money to help the rich and corporations, but money spent protecting the rest of us is “wasteful”

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Obama’s Cleveland Appearance Leaves Boehner No Other Option but to Lie – Again

Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama’s budget in well-tried but obvious lies

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Clinton Emails Have Provided GOP Yet Another Excuse to Cry “Benghazi”

The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton

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House Speaker Boehner Skipped Selma Anniversary For California Resort Town Fundraisers

John Boehner missed the Selma 50th Anniversary commemoration because he was attending two fundraising events in California resort towns.

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A Petition Has Been Launched To Prosecute and Expel John Boehner From Congress

This week a MoveOn.org petition began circulating for the purpose of prosecuting Speaker of the House John A. Boehner for willfully breaking a federal law when he knowingly violated the 216 year-old Logan Act.

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Conservatives Go Gaga For Bibi As They Trip Over Themselves Praising Netanyahu’s Speech

Immediately after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech before Congress, Republicans and conservatives made sure to deliver overwhelming praise, especially considering the controversy behind the address.

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5 Big Whoppers from Speaker Boehner

Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings

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John Boehner Shares his Scott Walker-Like Delusions About Foreign Policy

You might remember how John Boehner went all Stepford-like on Fox News Sunday and screamed that he was going to shutdown Homeland Security, and oh by the way it’s all Obama’s fault? If you didn’t watch the entire interview, you missed a few other Boehner nuggets. This is what Boehner is saying, that his interview…

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Boehner Plucks OK Gov. Mary Fallin to Repeat his Keystone XL Lies in Weekly Address

In the final analysis this is government of, by, and for the people, not a group of oil-drenched Koch-whores in Congress

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Rand Paul’s Read the Bills Act Relies on Congress to Tell the Truth

Rand Paul says he wants Congress to read bills before they vote, relying on them to tell us truthfully if they actually read them.

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John Boehner Falsely Claims House Focused Squarely on Jobs and the Economy

John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people

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Boehner’s Latest Attempt to Hoodwink America Fails Like the Rest

Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”

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Israeli Ambassador Jokes About Working To Undermine President Obama

Netanyahu’s Ambassador Ron Dermer figured Super Bowl Sunday was a great day to kick sand in the President’s face by tweeting “Breaking Protocol, Choosing Sides: Go Patriots.

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Israeli Ambassador Throws John Boehner Under The Bus After Disrespect Of Obama Backfires

In an attempt to justify and mitigate Prime Minister Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak to Congress, Ron Dermer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambassador to the U.S., basically threw Speaker Boehner (R-OH) under the bus.

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The Lame Duck President’s Not So Lame State Of The Union Speech

I was privileged to watch a chamber full of sullen, petulant, mostly far-right and white, wealthy Koch puppets, largely sitting on their hands as second term President Barack Obama, gave them a not so subtle dressing down.

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Boehner’s SOTU Fact-Checking Blames Obama for Income Inequality

The sad fact of Republican fact-checking is that their fact-checking needs to be fact-checked, and this was never more true last night.

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GOP Civil War: Tea Party Congressman Rips Speaker John Boehner For Poor Leadership

Continuing GOP civil war, Rep. Richard Nugent of Florida vents Tea Party dissatisfaction with John Boehner’s leadership and competence.

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Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress

It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.

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John Boehner Votes to Create 35 Jobs! It’s a Jobgasm!

Keystone XL will create 35 permanent jobs, not even one person from every state in the Union. Maybe we should have a lottery for each state!

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Republicans Begin New Congress By Standing With Racist Sympathizer Steve Scalise

Republicans are upset that Steve Scalise might have trouble raising money for the party, because some donors might not want to be seen giving cash to a racist, neo-Nazi sympathizer.

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According to Republicans The 114th Koch Congress Is Focused On Koch Priorities

Republicans are beginning the 114th Congress with the mindset that “nothing is going to get in the way of our team’s focus on the Koch brothers’ priorities” in quickly passing two bills the Koch brothers demand be acted on.

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Tea Baggers Go Coo Coo for Louie Gohmert

Tea Baggers love Louie Gohmert, which may explain why the man sounds barely sane to the rest of us. McCain got it in one: the man is an idiot

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113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart

Similar to overpaid NFL “star” Jay Cutler’s reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best thing we can say about the 113th session of Congress is that it’s over.

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Drudge Suggests Obama Blackmailed Boehner to Get Funding Bill Passed

Because he can’t admit to the most likely explanation, insanity in his own party, Matt Drudge tweets the least likely explanation, blackmail

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House Republican Says He Was Tricked By Boehner Into Voting For Government Funding Bill

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) is claiming that he was tricked by John Boehner and Republican House leadership into voting for the rule that allowed the government funding bill to move forward.
Stutzman’s statement matters because the rule passed by single vote, 214-212.

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House Republicans Once Again Fill Committee Leadership Spots With Middle-Age White Guys

Just as they did after the 2012 elections, House Republicans decided to staff these committee leadership spots with middle-age (or just plain old) white guys. Of the 17 new assignments announced earlier this week, all of them are white males.

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Once More, President Obama Is Doing The Republicans’ Jobs For Them

There is an idiom that parents and employers likely put in practice when an important task has to be completed correctly; “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” President Obama certainly understands that sentiment with a slight variation; if the nation wants anything done at all, the President has to do it himself due to Republicans who have done nothing since January 2009.

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Boehner’s Sleazy Lawsuit Is About Blaming The Black Man In White House For GOP Laziness

Boehner’s reason for suing the President is another example of Republicans projecting their gross malfeasance on the African American in the White House; the only man in Washington working to grow the economy and create jobs for the American people.

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Republican Congressman Tells Right-Wing Radio Host That House Has Votes To Impeach Obama

Here we go again. During an interview with local Pennsylvania radio host Gary Sutton, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) commented that House Republicans most likely have enough votes to impeach President Obama.

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Tea Party Nut Allen West Says Obama Is Using Boko Haram To Distract Us All From Benghazi

Former one-term Republican Congressman, and current Fox News analyst, Allen West took to his personal blog to write about the Boko Haram kidnappings on Monday.

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President Obama Has The Middle Class’ Back As He Drops Chained CPI From His Budget

The White House announced that the President will be releasing his budget very soon. One thing that will not be included in that budget is chained CPI.

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Obamacare Is A Massive Success As 1.1 Million People Signed Up In The Month Of January

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the January enrollment numbers for the ACA and it can only be seen as good news.

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Sandy Levin Blasts Republicans For Not Passing Clean Debt Ceiling Vote the Last Time

Democrat Sandy Levin wasn’t quite ready to let Republicans forget what they cost the country the last time they refused to raise the debt ceiling.

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Huge Victory For Obama As John Boehner Will Bring Clean Debt Ceiling Bill To House Floor

Apparently, realizing he was in a no-win situation, Boehner finally conceded on Tuesday morning and told his caucus that he will bring a a clean debt ceiling bill to the House floor on Wednesday.

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Say What? Now House Republicans Won’t Raise Debt Ceiling Unless Spending Is Increased

It appears that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has a new plan for Republicans to apparently get a political victory out of raising the debt ceiling at the end of this month.

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Impending Terror As Americans Are Forced To Depend On Republicans To Do Something

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stated that the debt ceiling will need to be raised no later than February 27th.

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House Republican Blasts His Own Party, ‘Jesus himself couldn’t be the speaker’

A Republican John Boehner ally tries to justify why the Speaker can’t do his job by saying that even Jesus couldn’t lead this House of Republicans.

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John Boehner Threatens President Obama With Impeachment Over Use Of Executive Orders

On Tuesday morning, at a breakfast discussing the State of the Union address later in the evening, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters that President Obama is on dangerous ground on his use of executive orders.

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Speaker Boehner Admits That He Won’t Lift a Finger to Help Unemployed Americans

On Tuesday, after the Senate passed a bill to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term unemployed, and President Obama held a press conference requesting the GOP-led House to also pass it, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement.

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