Boehner: a dealmaker and a survivor in tight spot
WASHINGTON It’s been just a month on the calendar but seemingly a lifetime in politics since House Speaker John Boehner got a pricey bottle of red wine from President Barack Obama as a birthday...
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WASHINGTON — At a closed-door Capitol meeting on Wednesday, Representative Peter Roskam of Illinois was regaling other Republicans with his imitation of Speaker John A. Boehner, imagining him in the...
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WASHINGTON - At a closed-door Capitol meeting on Wednesday, Rep. Peter Roskam was regaling other Republicans with his imitation of Speaker John Boehner, imagining him in budget negotiations with...
View ArticleIt's Personal: Obama and Boehner's Soured History
At a closed-door Capitol meeting on Wednesday, Representative Peter Roskam of Illinois was regaling other Republicans with his imitation of Speaker John A. Boehner, imagining him in the current budget...
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President, speaker far from close in personal respects or political views The Daily Briefing The House today gave final approval of legislation to overhaul Ohio's school-accountability system and...
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WASHINGTON At a closed-door Capitol meeting on Wednesday, Rep. Peter Roskam of Illinois was regaling other Republicans with his imitation of Speaker John Boehner, imagining him in the current budget...
View ArticleObama Meeting Boehner Reveals Strangers Without Trust
House Speaker John Boehner could hardly believe what he was hearing. It was President Barack Obama insisting that Boehner include a long-term U.S. debt limit increase in legislation for a proposed...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner: a dealmaker and a survivor in a tight spot in `fiscal...
WASHINGTON - It's been just a month on the calendar but seemingly a lifetime in politics since House Speaker John Boehner got a pricey bottle of red wine from President Barack Obama as a birthday...
View ArticleBoehner: Dealmaker and Survivor in Tight Spot
It's been just a month on the calendar but seemingly a lifetime in politics since House Speaker John Boehner got a pricey bottle of red wine from President Barack Obama as a birthday present, a...
View ArticleJohn Boehner Acting As Dealmaker, Survivor Amid Monumental Fiscal Cliff...
WASHINGTON -- It's been just a month on the calendar but seemingly a lifetime in politics since House Speaker John Boehner got a pricey bottle of red wine from President Barack Obama as a birthday...
View Article>Boehner: a dealmaker and a survivor in tight spot
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been just a month on the calendar but seemingly a lifetime in politics since House Speaker John Boehner got a pricey bottle of red wine from President Barack Obama as a birthday...
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WASHINGTON -- It's been just a month on the calendar but seemingly a lifetime in politics since House Speaker John Boehner got a pricey bottle of red wine from President Barack Obama as a birthday...
View Article“The Price of Politics,” by Bob Woodward
THE PRICE OF POLITICS By Bob Woodward Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? Recommend Personal Post Simon & Schuster, 428 pp, $30 On the night of Nov. 6, the winner of the 2012 presidential...
View ArticleBob Woodward's Price of Politics: 4 talking points
In a new book, the Washington Post's scoop machine reveals what went on behind closed doors during the tense negotiations over the debt ceiling Legendary journalist Bob Woodward is out with yet...
View ArticleWoodward Book Details Battles Over Deficit
WASHINGTON — A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward chronicles the descent of Barack Obama’s Washington into partisan trench warfare and mines the minutiae of the largely failed negotiations...
View ArticleStruggling with the art of the possible
12 Lacking the joy of the game?: Barack Obama with the US speaker of the house, John Boehner, during negotiations last year on averting an American debt default. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleBob Woodward Book: Debt Deal Collapse Led to 'Pure Fury' From President Obama
An explosive mix of dysfunction, miscommunication, and misunderstandings inside and outside the White House led to the collapse of a historic spending and debt deal that President Obama and House...
View ArticleFrom Joe Biden to Paul Ryan: Meet the Major Players in "The Price of Politics"
ABCNEWS.com Bob Woodward's new book, "The Price of Politics," addresses the condition of the American economy and how and why we got there. His book examines the struggle between President Obama and...
View ArticleBook: Obama, Boehner discord led nation to near default
Washington A combination of miscalculations, ideological rigidity and discord within the leadership of both political parties brought the U.S. government to the brink of a catastrophic default during...
View Article‘The Price of Politics,’ by Bob Woodward
THE PRICE OF POLITICS By Bob Woodward (Nathaniel Grann) - The front cover of Bob Woodward's book \"The Price Of Politics.\" Simon & Schuster, 428 pp, $30 On the night of Nov. 6, the winner of the...
View ArticlePeppard: Cabernet and cigs for Speaker John Boehner in Dallas
Had President Obama stuck around in Texas after the Bush Library dedication, he could’ve had another shot at solving the...
View ArticleWhat John Boehner's ambition has to do with the shutdown
On a very simple level, the closing of most of the American federal government can be pinned on the ambitions of one man, Speaker of the House John Boehner. There is little doubt that Mr Boehner, a...
View ArticleFor Obama And Boehner, No Sign Of Thaw In Frosty Relationship
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have had five years of fights and negotiations to learn how to work together. The relationship has had ups and downs. Today it's as sour as it's ever...
View ArticleMilbank: The great GOP leadership turnaround
White House press secretary Jay Carney reiterates that the White House will not negotiate with Congress over the debt ceiling during a daily briefing on Sept. 19. (Evan Vucci, Associated Press) As...
View Article“MEET THE PRESS” CLIPS & TRANSCRIPT -- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 (NBC Universal Inc)
(Source: NBC Universal Inc) DECEMBER 9, 2012 -- Today's "Meet the Press with David Gregory" featured an update from NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel inside Syria; a discussion with...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich Gives John Boehner Cover On Fiscal Cliff: We Survived Under...
WASHINGTON -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave a bit of cover to the man currently occupying that post, offering Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) a way to sell his caucus on a fiscal cliff deal...
View ArticleJohn McCain: White House, Democrats 'More Interested In Winning' Than Results...
As the 2013 government shutdown entered its third week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) went after the White House and Democrats over a swift rejection of House Republicans' latest proposal. Speaking on the...
View ArticleCharlie Rangel Compares Tea Party Republicans To 'Confederates'
Getty WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) participates in the first hearing of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill July...
View ArticleCautionary Tale in Shutdown for Both President and Speaker
The last government shutdown in 1995 offers cautionary lessons for both sides in the current standoff. The two men at the center of the last shutdown, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, shared a closer,...
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