Boehner, Pelosi, Haley, Ryan, and Others to Watch in 2011

House Speaker John Boehner casts himself as a political throwback
The past 16 years in Congress have been typified by Partisanship and procedural stunts. New House Speaker John Boehner promises to return the House to a time when members can 'disagree without being disagreeable.' He will be put to the test, and soon. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds the gavel after receiving it from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Califorina during the first session of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. Wielding an outsize gavel, Speaker...

Taking charge, GOP overhauls rules in House
WASHINGTON -- Jubilant Republicans took control of the House on Wednesday and installed Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as the new speaker before pushing through an overhaul of House rules intended to ease their drive to dismantle the new Health Care law, cut federal spending and provide the Tax Cuts they see as a way to jump-start The Economy. In the Senate, tensions over the partisan stalemate that dominated the last session spilled over into the opening of the 112th Congress as a coalition of Demo...

Texas' GOP freshmen plan to be aggressive in U.S. House
Texas' GOP freshmen plan to be aggressive in U.S. House 12:00 AM CST on Thursday, January 6, 2011 By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] WASHINGTON - Newly minted U.S. Rep. Bill Flores of Bryan is impatient. One of three Texas freshmen who ousted longtime Democrats as part of the Tea Party surge, he said Wednesday on his first day on the job that he can't wait to lop huge chunks of federal spending and overturn the president's Health Care plan, or at leas...

Promises of civility, but it's short-lived
WASHINGTON — Even as the House's newly elected leaders made lofty calls for civility and Bipartisanship Wednesday, rank-and-file members engaged in sharp warfare over the federal Budget and Health Care. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried to set a new tone in his Acceptance Speech: "The American People have humbled us." With 10 of his 11 siblings looking on, Boehner, 61, became the 53rd House speaker, succeeding Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. He will lead a House with a 242-193 GOP majorit...

Boehner in tears as 112th Congress convenes
The 112th Congress convened on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday at noon with the new Speaker of the House John Boehner in tears as he accepted the gavel from the outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The composition of the House of Representatives and the Senate is significantly different in the 112th Congress as compared to the previous Congress.  First of all, Republicans have a majority in the House with 242 members to 193 Democrats.  This means that Representative Boehner, a Republ...

Gavel down on Nancy Pelosi
John Boehner, (R) now firmly seated as the Speaker of the House after defeating Nancy Pelosi in a vote of 241 - 173 looks to 2011 Federal Debt Limit of 14.3 Trillion, realizing there is very little time to address the issues at hand in order to reset the course of history for America. Upon acceptance of the gavel he was quoted as saying, "That includes this gavel, which I accept cheerfully and gratefully knowing that I am but its caretaker. After all, this is the people's house." Former Speaker ...

GOP Breaking Promises in the House
(WASHINGTON) — Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won't be kept. (See The White House photo blog.) And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won't be allowed to propose changes to the Legislation despite Republican promises to end such heavy-handed tactics from the days of Democratic co...

GOP takes control of the House, overhauls the rules
WASHINGTON — Jubilant Republicans took control of the House yesterday and installed Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio as the new speaker before pushing through an overhaul of House rules intended to ease the drive to dismantle the new Health Care law, cut federal spending, and provide the Tax Cuts they see as a way to jump-start The Economy. In the Senate, tensions over the partisan stalemate that dominated the last session spilled over into the opening of the 112th Congress as a coa...

GOP controls U.S. House
Republicans gained 63 seats in the 435-member House in November's Elections, fueled by Tea Party Candidates in Michigan and elsewhere who want a smaller Federal Government, less spending and a Repeal of the Health Care Reform Bill. But with the Democrats retaining control of the Senate -- and President Barack Obama holding a Veto pen -- the result of a divided government could be gridlock. To pass Legislation, including the Budget, accommodations must ...

A modest speaker not to be underestimated
The new speaker of the House, Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, isn't the most brilliant statesman ever to hold the job ( Newt Gingrich beats him on that count), the most groundbreaking (that was Nancy Pelosi) or the most charismatic (speakers rarely score high on that scale). But he is among the most modest, an attribute rare among politicians — and one that should come in handy in the rough-and-tumble period of divided government that lies ahead. Ever since Boehner's Republicans won their ma...

With 241 votes and a big gavel, Ohio'sBoehner becomes 61st U.S. House Speaker
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - The only surprise in Wednesday's vote for who will lead the U.S. House of Representatives during the 112th Congress was the 11 votes that Democratic Members sent to Rep. Heath Shuler (D., N.C.) instead of their Candidate for Minority Leader, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose liberal brand of politics Republicans across the board used as their main punching bag during the last election cycle. But for today's winner, John A. Boehner of West Chester in southwest Ohio, ...

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds up the gavel during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won't be kept. And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won't be allowed to propose changes to the l...

The New Congress: ‘A voice at the table’
WASHINGTON — - South Carolina’s four new Republican congressmen took their oaths of office Wednesday and pledged to move quickly to slash federal spending, cut the Deficit and reduce the size of government. With more House freshmen than any other state save Florida and New York, the South Carolina congressional delegation took on a new look after the defeats of Incumbent Reps. John Spratt, a York Democrat, and Bob Inglis, a Travelers Rest Republican. Hundreds of friends and relati...

Boehner elected House speaker as 112th Congress convenes
Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), taking the gavel Wednesday as the new speaker of the House, promised to work for Fiscal Responsibility while offering "openness" to the chamber's Democratic minority. This Story A changing of the gavel as 112th Congress is sworn in John Boehner sets humble tone as he claims House gavel Boehner assumes speaker's gavel House Republicans adopt new rules for tax and spending Legislation For GOP freshmen, congressional swearing-in is 'game day' Ezra Klein: ...

God Bless You Speaker Boehner
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivering her seemingly never-ending exit Speech as she prepared to hand the gavel over to new House Speaker John Boehner. Pelosi seemed to use her remarks to boast about what she considered her accomplishments, sounding much more like a campaign Speech than a graceful stepping aside. Eventually, she got around to John Boehner, praising him as a “skilled legislator” and a servant of the people, and then handed him the gavel as Speaker of the House. There was vis...

The New Mr. Speaker Warns of "Tough Decisions"
New House Speaker John Boehner said “hard work and tough decisions” await the 112th Congress, which began today when outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi handed over a very large gavel (selected by Boehner) to the Ohio Republican. “Nearly one in 10 of our neighbors are looking for work,” Boehner said. “Health Care costs are rising for families and small businesses. Our spending has caught up with us, and our Debt will soon eclipse the size of our entire economy.” This Congress

Behar and Huffington Posts Sekoff Paint GOP as Trying to Ruin and Destroy Health Care
On Wednesday’s Joy Behar Show on HLN, when host Behar asked, referring to House Republicans, "Are they going to ruin Health Care?" guest Roy Sekoff - founding editor of the Huffington Post - referred to a Repeal of ObamaCare as "destroy[ing] health care." Moments later, he also claimed that ObamaCare "will actually lower the Debt," and accused Republicans of being hypocritical for wanting to Repeal it: JOY BEHAR: Let’s talk about what they’re going...

Oops: Obama Rented an Illegal House During Hawaii Vacation
President Barack Obama's two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedo...

A changing of the gavel as 112th Congress is sworn in
The House and the Senate have a split personality by design, but Wednesday's debut of the 112th Congress revealed a stark contrast between the two chambers that could define the direction of every major debate over the next two years. This Story A changing of the gavel as 112th Congress is sworn in John Boehner sets humble tone as he claims House gavel Boehner assumes speaker's gavel House Republicans adopt new rules for tax and spending Legislation For GOP freshmen, congressional swearing-in...

Ezra Klein: A very smart speech by Speaker Boehner
If you spent the afternoon watching C-SPAN, as I did, you heard applause. A lot of it. Over and over again. And when John Boehner took the podium to be sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it swelled back up, and stayed there. No one Republican member of Congress wants to be the first to stop applauding the new speaker. Luckily, Boehner did it for them. "It's still just me," he said with a smile. Traditionally, politicians overpromise in these moments. If you look b...

Centrists likely to sway priority issues on Hill
Tea partyers may be getting all the attention, but the Centrist wings of both parties remain the fulcrum in Congress, though which way they swing depends on the issues lawmakers tackle first. Moderates said if spending and fiscal issues dominate, then the centrists are likely to have the upper hand holding their Caucus together and possibly attracting conservative Democrats; while if leaders push Social Issues, Republicans will have a tougher time maintaining unity. "I think on the fiscal issues...

Obamacare Goes Under the Knife
In the nearly 10 months since the Democrats' Health Care bill became law, Bureaucrats have been feverishly writing new Regulations, and the first wave of reform has arrived. There are Tax Credits for small businesses to cover employees; kids can stay on their parents' policies until they are 26; co-pays for preventive care went away. But to most Americans, the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has felt less like the dawn of a new era and more like the start of a long ...

Boehner and Obama: The Task Ahead
In his opening remarks as the 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner did what he had to do. He put the country and the president on notice that he takes his responsibilities seriously, that he wants the House to get down to solving the nation’s financial difficulties, and that he believes that “Elections have consequences.” Having uttered this latter phrase in his much-publicized meeting with Republican legislators last year, Obama should appreciate the poig...

Out With the Old
Posted by Nichole Hungerford on Jan 6th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. With Trademark lachrymosity, Congressman John A. Boehner accepted the gavel of the House of Representatives Wednesday from outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Presiding over his maiden session in the “people’s House,” Boehner aptly expounded on “the ...

Something historic this way comes....
Something Historic this way comes, San Antonio. While it could be great, there are those out there who believe it could also be useless. Please refer to this article, to get all the details as to who will be doing this. A new set of swearing in(s) took place today, January 5, 2011, on Capital Hill at the House of Representatives. The Lame Duck is now over and the new elected officials from November 2, 2010, have all been sworn into their new positions. John Boehner is now Speaker of th...