John Boehner: “I think there's an awful lot of wasteful Washington spending in these earmarks. And I'm doing my best to try to control…”

For a bill that was supposed to be about jobs, jobs, jobs, has turned into a bill that`s all about spending, spending, and spending.

Even though I didn`t really want to go the direction where the team`s gone, they were the ones who elected me to be the leader, and I had an obligation to go lead them.

I think there’s a point here where the American people are wondering, is the president above the law? The president could have put this whole issue behind us, not put the country and the world through this misery, if he had just told us…

Let me just be clear here. A debt limit increase without any reforms to lower our deficit just isn`t going to cut it.