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December 20, 2015

Reaction to House Speaker John Boehner's resignation

The following are statements from lawmakers and others in reaction to House Speaker John Boehner’s announcement that he will resign his post and his seat in October:

December 20, 2015

The process for electing a new speaker of the House

Speaker John Boehner announced Friday that he will resign his post and his House seat in October in a move that stunned Capitol Hill lawmakers. But now that the Ohio Republican has announced that he is on his way out, what happens next?

December 20, 2015

House GOP mum on defund Planned Parenthood plan, hints about waiting, skipping shutdown

A horde of reporters pursued Rep. Adam Kinzinger down a basement corridor of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night. The Illinois lawmaker had just emerged from a rare, evening, closed-door confab of the House Republican Conference on government funding and efforts to slash money for Planned Parenthood.

December 20, 2015

Rep. McClintock quits Freedom Caucus over Planned Parenthood tactics

A key House Republican resigned from a conservative House Freedom Caucus Wednesday in what may be the first sign that there could be cracks in the group of 30-40 House members pressuring GOP leadership to vote to defund Planned Parenthood.

December 20, 2015

Longtime Clinton adviser Blumenthal slammed Boehner as 'alcoholic' and 'lazy' in email

A longtime confidante of Hillary Clinton dismissed House Speaker John Boehner as "louche, alcoholic, and lazy" in an email to Clinton's personal account that was released by the State Department late Monday.

December 20, 2015

Congress faced with passing a long term Transportation bill after August recess

The effort in Congress to pass a long-term transportation bill has less to do with the legislation and more to do with ObamaCare, the Export-Import Bank and other pressing concerns.  

December 20, 2015

Hillary e-mails show she lobbied Dems for Obamacare passage

Among Friday’s tranche of new Hillary Clinton e-mails is one that seemingly has nothing to do with her duties as secretary of state and instead with one of her longtime pet projects – Democratic health care reform.  

December 20, 2015

Planned Parenthood head apologizes for official’s fetal organ comments, as fallout grows

Planned Parenthood’s president apologized Thursday for comments made by the group’s medical research director in a secretly recorded conversation about collecting fetal body parts, as outrage over the graphic video mounted on Capitol Hill where lawmakers are launching several investigations.

December 20, 2015

Goodlatte: Obama administration shares blame in illegal immigrant allegedly killing woman

Virginia GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that the Obama administration shares responsibility with San Francisco authorities for the release of the illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal record who allegedly killed a woman on a city sidewalk.

December 20, 2015

Union-backed Dems make final push to kill Obama's trade bill

Union-backed Democrats launched a last-ditch effort Thursday to scuttle President  Obama's trade agenda by sacrificing a favored program of their own that retrains workers displaced by international trade.