John Boehner

Instead of finally offering an alternative plan to the Affordable Health Care Act versus fruitless attempts at repealing it, Speaker of the House...

  House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) blames President Barack Obama for the continued government shutdown as well as the looming default because...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama[1] (pictured far right) laid the blame for the government’s partial shutdown at the feet of House Speaker John Boehner (pictured), escalating a government-shutdown confrontation that was leading headlong into a potentially more damaging clash over the nation’s borrowing authority. RELATED: What Is A Government Shutdown, How Does It Affect You?[2] Speaking at a construction company in Washington’s Maryland suburbs Thursday, Obama cast Boehner as a captive of a small band of conservative Republicans who want to extract concessions in exchange for passing a short term spending bill that would restart the partially shuttered government. “The only thing preventing people from going back to work and basic research starting back up and farmers and small business owners getting their loans, the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner won’t even let the bill get a yes or no vot ...

Washington (CNN) -- If President Barack Obama's relationship with House Speaker John Boehner was contentious in the past, he certainly wasn't...

Washington (CNN) -- Sometime in the next 10 days, a fiscal cliff agreement is likely. It almost certainly won't be...

Though President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner seemed on the verge of a fiscal-cliff agreement, the deadline continues to loom...