John Boehner
The Public Record
53rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015
House Republicans answering President Obama's challenge to either get things done or if he tries to do it for him, sue him for trying.
I will have the Members know that the gentleman from Iowa has announced that this will be his last term in Congress. On behalf of the House, I want to thank Mr. Latham for his 20 years of service to the House, thank him for all those years…
And my colleagues, today we will take up the NSA reform bill. I rise today to thank Chairman Rogers, Chairman Goodlatte, Mr. Conyers, and all, in a bipartisan way, who have come to address this very critical reform at a time when America…
There should be another round of BRAC. We have bases that are unnecessary. They need to go.
Even John Boehner when he issued a statement today, critical statement of the president saying in effect that the U.S. has been too weak to this point. He talked about maximizing economic and political punishment at this point.
If he tries to ignore the will of the Congress in Boehner's words he's going to run into a quote brick wall.
The president should be very, very careful with these executive orders.
He only needs 8 of the 50 competitive districts and he's speaker again.
He hopes they have learned their lesson in terms of tactics that work and tactics that don't work.
Members of Congress should be held to the highest standards, but this should be handled through the courts and by his family and his constituents.
The torture, the arbitrary arrests, you know, with Guo Feixiong and the Nobel Peace winner, Liu Xiaobo
Your loss is ours, it's just that simple. Here was a man who loved, in this order, God, his family, his country, and the House Appropriations Committee.
Perhaps his greatest gift to the body was the simplest one, and that was his fundamental sense of decency.
The Honorable Thomas S. Foley, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died on October 18, 2013.
Our message in the House has been pretty clear. We want to reopen our government and provide fairness to all Americans under the President's health care law. This law had a big rollout last week. It has been called an ``inexcusable mess,''…
The long and short of it is, there is going to be a negotiation here. We can't raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means.
The president's refusal to negotiate is hurting our economy and putting our country at risk.





