John Boehner

WHO SAID IT?

Who said it?

3 Mar 2013

Even today there's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester

US president shrugs off claims he lacks bonhomie

16 Jan 2013

Barack Obama has dismissed claims he disdains the backslapping bonhomie a US leader sometimes needs to drive his priorities through Congress.

Who said it?

5 Jan 2013

The two sides must have a correct view of history and pursue a future of reconciliation

President-elect Park Geun-hye of South Korea on relations with Japan

John Boehner narrowly re-elected as House Speaker

5 Jan 2013

John Boehner, the top Republican in Washington, has been narrowly re-elected to his powerful job as Speaker as the new US Congress opened for business, despite a mini-revolt in his own party over...

Small steps are enough

4 Jan 2013

The just-in-time budget deal the US Congress passed on New Year's Day calls to mind Samuel Johnson's observation about dogs that walk on their hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are...

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US House leaders plan to vote on Sandy relief measures

A chastened US House Republican leadership scrambled to tamp down seething bipartisan fury over a failure to approve emergency relief for victims of superstorm Sandy, saying a vote will now occur...

Republican crazies scuttle deal with Obama

A few years back, there was a boom in the US in poker television - shows in which you got to watch the betting and bluffing of expert card players. Since then, however, viewers seem to have lost...

Obama makes tax concession in fiscal cliff gambit

US President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner on Monday edged towards a deal to avert a potentially disastrous year-end tax and spending crisis that could spark a new...

US ECONOMY

Boehner offers tax rise on wealthy, in sign of movement on fiscal cliff

Republican leader of the US House of Representatives John Boehner has offered to raise income tax rates on households earning more than US$1 million a year in exchange for containing the cost of...

Who said it?

To say [John] Boehner is between a rock and a hard place is minimising the problem he faces

Political consultant Tobe Berkovitz, on the U.S. House Republican leader and talks to avoid the "...

US ECONOMY: ANALYSIS

John Boehner's dilemma in fiscal cliff showdown

With room for manoeuvre slipping away, top US Republican John Boehner is in a bind over how to avoid going over the fiscal cliff: embrace higher taxes and earn conservatives' ire, or scupper a...