Rappler's latest stories on John Boehner
Republican Paul Ryan elected US Speaker of the House
The nine term congressman from Wisconsin who replaces John Boehner earns a majority of votes in the 435 member chamber
Republican chaos as McCarthy quits US House speaker race
The political pandemonium set off by McCarthy s announcement comes as Congress must dig into crucial federal budget and debt ceiling battles when a speaker s firm hand at the tiller might be most needed
US drops Cuba from terror blacklist in landmark move
The move has deep political significance as the Cold War foes grapple for a rapprochement
Obama says Iran must halt key nuclear work for at least a decade
Obama moves to dial back tensions over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s planned speech to Congress opposing the Iran deal but strongly criticized Netanyahu s stance
Netanyahu says ties with US solid despite duel over Iran
Netanyahu s visit – including an address the US Congress on Tuesday March 3– is seen as a last ditch bid to derail the talks with Iran
Israel's Netanyahu in US to stop 'bad' Iran deal
UPDATED Netanyahu s controversial 48 hour visit has stoked discord with US President Barack Obama and brought bilateral relations to their lowest point in years
US Congress averts Homeland Security shutdown
With just two hours to spare the House of Representatives passes a measure funding the premier agency securing the US against terror threats
Israel's Netanyahu defends US Congress address
As prime minister of Israel I am obliged to make every effort to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons which it will aim at the State of Israel says the prime minister
Netanyahu invited to address US Congress February 11
The invitation for the Israeli leader to speak on February 11 comes as Washington and other global powers negotiate a complex deal with Iran to rein in its nuclear program
US Republicans begin two years of congressional rule
Republicans who now control both the US Senate and House of Representatives are making tactical strikes by voting this week on a series of conservative measures symbolizing their priorities for the 114th Congress
US House votes Thursday on massive spending bill
The House is also likely to pass a temporary extension to allow the Senate time to debate and vote on the measure which currently has a midnight deadline to approve the bill
Republican-led House blocks Obama immigration plan
It is unlikely to reach the floor of the Senate where Obama s Democrats remain in control through the end of the year
Republicans to fight 'illegal' Obama immigration plan
John Boehner: That s just not how our democracy works
Congress should vote on ISIS strikes in January: speaker
US House Speaker John Boehner says he is in favor of holding a vote on the current military operation but only after the new Congress has been seated early next year
US House leader eyes spending measure to avert shutdown
The country s top Republican suggested a temporary spending measure known as a continuing resolution to avoid a fractious political brawl over federal spending
US House of Representatives votes to sue Obama
The House voted to resort to the unprecedented move of taking the president to court for not having stringently followed the letter of the law while implementing his signature Obamacare health care reform bill
Obama seeks $3.7B to stem illegal border entries
Obama says the funds will help ease an urgent humanitarian situation that has seen tens of thousands of minors from El Salvador Guatemala and Honduras illegally cross the southern US border
US 'looking at all options' in Iraq – Obama
US officials refuse to say publicly what military options are being considered except to rule out sending troops back into the country invaded by the US in 2003
US Senate drops IMF reforms from Ukraine aid
US Senate Democrats acknowledges Republican demands to remove International Monetary Fund reforms from a Ukraine aid package
US debt ceiling hike clears House, heads to Senate
UPDATED The move dials back the threat of an election year fiscal showdown
US says no major climate impact from Keystone pipeline
A review on the project showed building and using the pipeline would not in itself significantly increase greenhouse gases blamed for climate change
2014 State of the Union: Key quotes
Key quotes from US President Barack Obama s 2014 State of the Union address
Obama challenges US Congress on inequality
UPDATED In his annual State of the Union address Obama vows to use his executive powers to lift up workers improve education and clean the environment if his foes in Congress balk at more sweeping action
US Republicans to mull immigration path this week
The party s proposal would stop short of extending citizenship to adults illegally in the United States although Republicans would back a path to citizenship for those illegally brought to the country as children
Congress pulls US back from brink, averts default
UPDATED The US Congress approves a measure that should end the US government shutdown and averts a potentially catastrophic default
Budget rift pushes Washington to the brink
Washington s risky game of political brinkmanship neared crisis point with no deal yet nailed down to avoid a catastrophic US debt default just 36 hours before a crucial deadline
Senate in talks to end US fiscal impasse, deal elusive
Politicians grapple with how to open the shuttered government and avoid a potentially calamitous failure to pay the country s obligations for the first time in history
White House, Republicans bicker, shutdown drags on
Washington is lurching ever closer to an October 17 deadline to raise the US government s statutory borrowing limit
World fears US default, Obama warns
UPDATED Failure to raise the US debt ceiling would cause the United States to default on its bills US President Barack Obama says in a press briefing
Default fears fuel angst in shutdown Washington
Washington s building financial crisis was noted by China with Beijing warning that the United States must act quickly to establish the credibility of the dollar
Republicans rip White House in shutdown counter-attack
This isn t some damn game The American people don t want their government shut down and neither do I US House Speaker John Boehner said
US shutdown prompts global trepidation, bemusement
The effects of the dramatic spending freeze have rippled around the globe
White House talks fail to end government shutdown
UPDATED The talks at the White House appeared to make little obvious progress in ending the shutdown
Shutdown chokes Washington, political standoff deepens
National monuments were barricaded US war cemeteries in Europe closed and hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent home without pay
With no budget, US gov't shuts down
UPDATED The shutdown is the most serious crisis yet in a series of rolling ideological skirmishes between Democrat Obama and House Republicans over the size of the US government and its role in national life
US faces hefty hit if govt shuts down
Experts say a short term shutdown won t do much damage; a protracted shutdown would more broadly disrupt private sector output and spark more market turbulence
US Senate rejects House budget, hours to shutdown
UPDATED With barely two hours before a midnight deadline Congress is in the thick of a bitter impasse over federal spending
Obama: Republicans appeasing 'extremists' on shutdown
Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking to force Obama to delay or defund his signature health insurance reform law in return for funding government operations
Republican House speaker vows to support Obama on Syria strikes
UPDATED US Republican House Speaker John Boehner would support President Barack Obama s call for military strikes against Syria
US leaders squabble despite warnings on budget cuts
With three days to go before the so called sequester 85 billion in across the board cuts takes effect federal agencies are tightening belts as feuding lawmakers appear unable to reach a better tailored deal
Fiscal cliff averted, now wait for the next crisis
If the fiscal cliff fight was bitter the next boiling skirmishes between the Democratic president and scorched earth Republicans could be worse
US Congress finally averts fiscal cliff
UPDATED After bitter New Year brinksmanship the US Congress finally backed a deal to avert a fiscal cliff of tax hikes and massive spending cuts that had threatened to unleash economic calamity
US fiscal cliff solution goes to Republican House
The US House of Representatives is set to take up the deal to avert the fiscal cliff
Hopes dive of deal to avoid US fiscal cliff
The White House accuses Republicans of walking away and mounting futile diversionary votes as hopes plunged of a deal to stave off a damaging year end fiscal crisis
Obama demands Republicans compromise on fiscal cliff
US President Barack Obama leaned heavily on Republicans Wednesday December 19 to come to terms on a deficit reduction deal by year s end to avert the fiscal cliff crisis of sweeping tax hikes and spending cuts
(UPDATED) Obama meets Boehner, fiscal cliff deal may be near
US President Barack Obama held fresh talks with top Republican lawmaker John Boehner at the White House on Monday December 17 in their latest effort to reach a deal to avoid the so called fiscal cliff
Obama stands firm on tax after Boehner talks
US President Barack Obama said Monday December 10 he was ready to compromise a little bit to head off a tax and austerity crisis but warned he would not budge on making the rich pay more
Obama meets with top Republican on fiscal cliff
US President Barack Obama and House of Representatives speaker John Boehner met Sunday December 9 to discuss the so called impending fiscal cliff of steep tax hikes and spending cuts
Republicans reject 'ridiculous' Obama fiscal cliff offer
Republicans rejected as ridiculous a White House plan to raise 1 6 trillion in new taxes over the next decade
US House speaker firm on Holder contempt vote: aide
US House Speaker John Boehner will press ahead with a vote on whether to hold the government s top attorney in contempt of Congress a move the White House warned Tuesday June 26 was a confrontational political ploy
