John Boehner

And when you look at the number of briefings that the speaker was in and other Democrat members of the House and Senate, it's pretty clear that they were well aware of what these enhanced interrogation techniques were.

The AIG situation underscores the fact that Washington isn't doing anything to help our economy.

I just think this is out of control.

In a letter to the president, Republican Leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor said they look forward to working with him, then ask six questions designed as much to make a point as get answers.

We look forward to working with him.

Here we are with 1,100 pages. Eleven-hundred pages that not one member of this body has read. Not one.

Here we are with 1,100 pages. 1,100 pages that not one member of this body has read. Not one.

I think our members enjoyed the conversation. I think the president enjoyed the conversation.

How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives, how does that stimulate the economy?

We expressed our concerns about some of the spending that's being proposed in the House bill and the fact that it doesn't spend out very quickly.

It's being paid for by our kids and grandkids. And so while we want to get the economy moving again, the overall size and how we craft this is going to be very important.

When this bill passes today, remember these words. 'In God We Trust' because we're going to need his help.

When this bill passes today, remember those words, in God we trust, because we're going to need help.

None of us came here to have to vote for this mud sandwich. I can describe it a lot of different ways. You all know how awful it is. I didn't come here to do this.

It's about saving our economy. It's about protecting the Americans' jobs, and protecting their retirement, their security, their savings, their college loans, and frankly, their way of life.

At some point, the majority has an obligation to treat the minority with respect. It is not happening, and that's why we're going to continue to wage this fight to be heard on this floor and represent nearly half of the American people…

I think that we have done our job as best as we can do it.

I think that we've done our job as best as we can do it.

And if we're going to act, we need to act sooner, rather than later.

When you have a bill of 3,500 pages, you can find a few reasons to vote for the bill and you can probably find a whole lot of reasons to vote against the bill.

The issue here is the fact that the plan is to move this bill to the Senate to get a conference report, to package the Labor, Health and Human Services bill with the Defense appropriation bill and the Military Quality of Life bill. Why is…

I think there's an awful lot of wasteful Washington spending in these earmarks. And I'm doing my best to try to control it.

Every bill that comes to the floor of the House that has an earmark in it, it has to be disclosed with the member's name on it, and the member has to be willing to defend it.

The whole point of the suggestion that I made that we withdraw this to go into a conversation or negotiation where the gentleman has 10 cards in his hand and I have one clearly would put me and my colleagues at a disadvantage.

We just want some understanding that there is going to be ample time for debate on the SCHIP bill that we expect to show up sometime this week. If we can agree on 2 or 3 hours of debate on the SCHIP bill, we will be more than happy to…