The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that our plan will lower premiums by up to 10 percent for small businesses, which will make health care more affordable and help create jobs in America.
John Boehner
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53rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015
We will start first by cutting our own budget. It will be one of our first votes. Then we will turn our attention to the rest of the federal budget and the job-killing policies that are denying economic growth and opportunity for the…
If your intention is to create a new government program, you must also terminate or reduce an existing program of equal or greater size in the same bill.
Making sure that these kids have a shot at the American dream like I did.
The earmark process here in Congress is a symbol of a -- of a broken Washington and a symbol of out of control spending.
It's encouraging that the White House is now willing to stop all the job-killing tax hikes scheduled for January 1.
It is encouraging that the White House is now willing to stop all the job-killing tax hikes scheduled for January 1.
I'm trying to catch my breath, so I don't refer to this -- this maneuver going on today as -- as chicken crap, all right? But this is nonsense.
Now, I don't know what my colleagues across the aisle didn't hear during the election. You know, the American people spoke pretty loudly.
I don't know what my colleagues across the aisle didn't hear during the election. American people spoke pretty loudly. They said stop all the looming tax hikes and to cut spending.
And I agree that the President did make an important point that Eric mentioned that he hasn't spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us and committed to do so.
There's a reason why we have Democrats and Republicans. We believe in different things about the appropriate role of the federal government. But having said that, the more time that we do spend together, we can find the common ground…
Well, it's not rocket science. Let's start with all of the TARP funds. Let's get the TARP money back and use it to pay down our debt. Now, let's bring all the unspent stimulus back.
Let's start with all of the TARP funds. Let's get the TARP money back and use it to pay down our debt.
Chris, this is what happens here in Washington. And when you start down that path, you just invite all kinds of problems.
I have been asking the questions over the last three or four months, where are the jobs?
We are going to repeal Obama care and replace it with common sense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance.
Well, it's not rocket science. Let's start with all of the TARP funds. Let's get the TARP money back and use it to pay down our debt. Now, let's bring all the unspent stimulus back.
There's a lot of tricks up our sleeves in terms of how we can dent this, kick it, slow it down to make sure it never happens. And trust me, I'm going to make sure that this health care bill never, ever, ever is implemented.
Government is out of control in Washington, and we need to rein it in, and begin a new drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government in our nation's capital.
That's why we have outlined clearly in our pledge what we would and would not do. And I think, when it comes to spending, we have been very specific about commonsense steps that we can do to get government --
Our government is out of control in Washington, and we need to rein it in, and begin a new drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government in our nation's capital.