Ellison: Boehner debt plan is ‘DOA’
By Jon Collins |
07.26.11 | 2:00 pm
The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said members need to more closely examine the president’s debt ceiling plan.
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Boehner gaffe, record oil profits prompt Dems to go after subsidies
By Kyle Daly |
04.28.11 | 2:13 pm
Earlier this week, representatives of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) scrambled to do damage control following his comments Monday to ABC News advocating cuts to Big Oil subsidies.
Tea party, Bachmann attack federal budget compromise
By Andy Birkey |
04.01.11 | 9:10 am
Leaders on Capitol Hill have given indications that they are close to reaching a compromise that would prevent a shutdown of the federal government. The speculative compromise would include $33 billion in cuts, well below the $61 billion the Republicans in the House have proposed. Rep. Michele Bachmann criticized the deal saying that the Democrats want the government to shut down and that they would not compromise. Bachmann said she and the tea party would not compromise either.
Bachmann backs off BP defense, as GOPers distance from Barton
By Andy Birkey |
06.17.10 | 2:03 pm
Rep. Michele Bachmann on Wednesday appeared to back off her criticisms of the Obama administration’s plans to have BP pay for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as other Republicans weighed in the plan: Rep. Joe Barton…
House call protest showed Bachmann going rogue on GOP
By Chris Steller |
11.06.09 | 9:56 am
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.”
Boehner, Cantor support Bachmann… briefly
By Andy Birkey |
09.23.09 | 8:27 am
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…
AM.MN: Pawlenty-Boehner report slams Dems on health care
By Chris Steller |
07.27.09 | 8:30 am
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…
Kline moves to front of GOP class on House ed-labor panel
By Chris Steller |
06.17.09 | 1:50 pm
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.
Bachmann appointed to GOP energy group
By Paul Schmelzer |
04.27.09 | 2:53 pm
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…
Bachmann perpetuates Boehner’s refuted $3,000 light-switch tax myth
By Aaron Wiener |
04.08.09 | 12:05 pm
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.
