John Boehner

In headlining Thursday’s “House call” protest against health-care reform, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was going rogue on her own party’s leaders, who had hoped to focus the day’s attention on their own 12-hour, online health-care “town hall.”

Last week Politico reported that the House Republicans’ minority leader, Rep. John Boehner, and whip, Rep. Eric Cantor were “wary” of the damage Rep. Michele Bachmann could cause to the party because of her inflammatory statements. The two rushed to the support of Bachmann in a letter on the official blog of the House Minority [...]

Gov. Pawlenty has penned a report with House Minority Leader John Boehner, titled “Capital Malfeasance,” that takes aim at how Democratic health care reforms would impact states. The Dem plan “will force states to comply with dozens of new mandates and regulations,” T-Paw and J-Bo write. That seems designed to answer a Star Tribune letter this [...]

U.S. Rep. John Kline will take over the ranking Republican seat on the House Education and Labor Committee, the GOP Steering Committee decided today.

The woman who infamously said she wanted citizens “armed and dangerous” over Barack Obama’s proposed energy tax is moving a tad closer to the front lines: Rep. Michele Bachmann has been appointed to the House GOP American Energy Solutions Group. She was named to the group, which is dedicated to lowering “energy prices for [...]

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” said Reilly in reference to Boehner’s use of his study. But that didn’t stop Rep. Michele Bachmann from hopping on board the Boehner train.

Two bills that would alleviate gender-based discrimination and make compensation more transparent passed the U.S. House on Friday. The Lilly Ledbetter Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act passed roughly down party lines, with Democrats claiming the bills would make the workplace more equitable for all workers and Republicans complaining that the bills would be a boon to trial lawyers.

Minnesota’s congressional delegation voted for the bills except for Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann, John Kline and Erik Paulsen.

The House rejected a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street on Monday, sending the Dow plunging 777 points, and Republican leaders blamed a speech by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for the rejection. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., roundly rejected that notion on Monday afternoon, having apparently left her talking points at home.

The assessments of last night’s doomed economic pow-wow have not been kind to John McCain. Setting the table is The New York Times with a damning (and dryly amusing) description of McCain’s performance at the economic summit that was called at his behest. An aide to House Minority Leader John Boehner all but acknowledges that [...]

From AP’s Jennifer Loven, word that there’s a tentative Capitol Hill deal on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. The terms are entirely sketchy, but it sounds like no agreement has been reached on helping distressed mortgage holders, only their bankers’ bankers:
The tentative accord would give the Bush administration just a fraction of the $700 [...]