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Pelosi: Repealing Obamacare Would Do Very Serious Violence to National Debt
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Dan Joseph House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, after being re-elected as the leader of the House Democrats. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that congressional Democrats would have passed health-care reform even if everyone in America had Health Insurance that they liked. “If everyone in America was very, very pleased wit...

A Speaker 'For the Children' Hands the Gavel to an Adult
As usual, Nancy Pelosi stole the show — and reminded us why we are very, very glad that she is no longer Speaker of the House. Pelosi went on so long before giving the stage to John Boehner that surely I wasn’t the only person yearning to see a shepherd’s crook yank her off. The manic smile added a truly weird dimension. Is Nancy Pelosi really human? “When I called the House to order for the first time,” Pelosi recalled, “I did so on behalf of America’s ...

Fighting Obamacare in the New Congress
House Speaker John Boehner has a challenging session of Congress ahead of him. Here are three useful rules for the road ahead. 1) Use Congressional hearings to expose the flaws in President Obama’s programs — especially the new health-care law. While millions of our Tax Dollars are being spent to convince Senior Citizens and others that health reform is good for them, Republicans should take the opportunity to tell the other side. Hold hearings to help explain how ObamaCare will redu...

Classless Nancy Pelosi finally gives John Boehner the gavel after babbling on about herself
Classless Nancy Pelosi finally gives John Boehner the gavel after babbling on about herself After babbling on longer than any outgoing House Speaker in recent memory and talking about all the crap and bs that Democrats jammed down America’s throats over the last four years, Nancy Pelosi proved yet again what a low class pile of pond scum she really is. Basically taking over the entire moment of the transfer for power, she even mocked Boehner’s “size of gavel” at one poi...

TN Rep Roe: I'm on Medicare. Repeal Congress' Health Care and ObamaCare
TN Rep Roe: I'm on Medicare. Repeal Congress' Health Care and ObamaCare In a remarkable exchange on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word, Tennessee Rep. Phil Roe says he supports the repeal of ObamaCare and the Congressional health care plan, which he doesn't use because he's on Medicare now. It was amazing and surreal all the way around. Mark Meckler, Tea Party Whore Extraordinaire, was on claiming that the "American People" supported repeal on a 2:1 basis. Adam Green of Bold Progressiv...

Liveblog Part II: May This Boehner Be Long and Earmarks Be Hard On
The members of the House are now supposed to leave the floor so they can escort John Boenher back in, apparently. They will all lock arms but wear rubber sleeves so they don’t get all of his orange tan cream on their clothes, we assume. Isn’t this exciting! We are moments away from having as our House Speaker a man who was raised by diapers and was forced to eat his brothers and sisters when there was no food. So he knows what Americans are going through these days. And he knows they...

Boehner Elected Speaker, Ushers in New Republican House
Rep. John Boehner was elected speaker of the House Wednesday, sealing newfound Republican power-sharing as the 112th Congress convened and drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era at the helm. Cheers broke out among GOP lawmakers on the House floor on Wednesday as Boehner, a Veteran lawmaker from Ohio, defeated Pelosi in the roll call for speaker. His rise to the helm of the House was virtually guaranteed months ago, when the Midterm Elections returned Republicans to control...

Area Congressman John Boehner becomes speaker of the House
WASHINGTON – Dayton-area Congressman John Boehner was elected speaker of the House on Wednesday, sealing newfound Republican power-sharing in Congress and drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era at the helm. Cheers broke out among GOP lawmakers on the House floor as Boehner, a Veteran lawmaker from West Chester Twp., defeated Pelosi in the roll call for speaker. His rise to the helm of the House was virtually guaranteed months ago, when the Midterm Elections returned Rep...

Boehner Sets the Bar High
Speaker Boehner is off to a very strong start. The earmark ban. A series of new House rules that make it easier to hold down spending. A “symbolic” cut in the congressional Budget. The maintenance of the term limit for committee chairmen at six years. The coming House vote to Repeal ObamaCare. And today 19 Democrats refused to vote for Pelosi. Which Caucus is looking over its shoulder in fear of the electorate? Boehner has won high marks on both style and substance. And he has kept h...

Boehner Elected Speaker of the House
(NewsCore) - Republican John Boehner of Ohio was officially elected the 61st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives by the 112th Congress Wednesday, vowing more transparency and accountability in the “people’s House.” Boehner was handed the Speaker’s gavel after receiving 241 of the 432 votes cast, while outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received 173. Calling Boehner a “legislative leader of skill,” a "man of conviction" and a man of “great ...

Dan Lipinski declines to vote for Pelosi as Democratic House leader
WASHINGTON--Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) was one of 19 House Democrats who declined on Wednesday to vote for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Democratic leader. Lipinski, one of the most conservative Democrats in the House has long been at ideological odds with Pelosi during her time as House Speaker. Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House, ended her tenure when she turned over the gavel to new Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Lipinski said in a statement that since the selection of Pelosi...

Speaker Boehner's first day of work liveblog
4:00 "This rules packages gives us an opportunity to do exactly what President Lincoln wanted." -- Kevin Mccarthy (R-Calif.) on the hilarious new "cut as you go" rule, which is such a brilliant example of something that sounds nice but doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny that I honestly admire the people who came up with it. 3:00 The first real thing Boehner's House is doing: Stripping non-voting delegates of their votes in the Committee of the Whole. Sorry, Eleanor Holmes Norton. Y...

19 Democrats dont vote for Pelosi
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House vote that elected Republican John Boehner to succeed Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker saw Pelosi lose the support of 19 fellow Democrats. That included two Democrats who voted for each other. All 241 in the new Republican majority voted for Boehner while 173 Democrats backed Pelosi. Eleven Democrats voted for North Carolina’s Heath Shuler, while Civil Rights leader John Lewis of Georgia received two votes and five others received single votes. Two of those si...

19 Democrats don't back Pelosi in speaker vote
WASHINGTON — The House vote that elected Republican John Boehner to succeed Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker saw Pelosi lose the support of 19 fellow Democrats. That included two Democrats who voted for each other. Under House rules, each party puts up a Candidate to be the next speaker. All 241 in the new Republican majority voted for Boehner on Wednesday, except for Boehner himself, who did not vote, while 173 Democrats backed Pelosi. Eleven Democrats voted for Heath Shuler, D-N.C., while...

Boehner replaces Pelosi as Speaker
The outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hands the gavel of office to her successor John Boehner. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Republican John Boehner was elected the new Speaker of the House today, marking a shift to the right in Washington as he replaced the first woman in the post, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi. The meeting of the 112th Congress, with the Republicans in control of the House and having slashed the Democratic majority in the Senate, is a long way from the heady ...

Why 19 Democrats voted against Pelosi
Thirteen of the 19 Democrats who voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House Wednesday won their 2010 election with 55 percent of the vote or less, according to a Politico analysis. Almost all of the 19 members who voted against the leader of their Caucus hail from more conservative Democratic districts, and it's clear they did not want to hand Republicans an easy chance to tie them to Pelosi with their first vote of the 112th Congress. Get the entire roll call vote HERE . Eleven Demo...

What a Relief! No More Bloviating
John Boehner’s first Speech as Speaker epitomizes the change in tenor in D.C. — not just its substance, but its duration, too. Boehner said more in a scant 12 minutes than Nancy Pelosi could ever bloviate in 20. That will be the secret to the success of Boehner and the GOP majority: simple and direct statements, going over the heads of the D.C. ruling class and straight to the American people. At no other time have Americans been more connected to their government, or better informed...

Finally The Day Has Arrived When Nancy Pelosi Loses Her Speakers Gavel And The Constitution Is Taken Seriously In The Peoples Ho
Today is finally the day that Nancy Pelosi loses her Speaker’s gavel. But she hasn’t gone quietly. She has been engaging in a massive Public Relations campaign to re-write her dismal record with outright lies. Yesterday, Pelosi demonstrated how far she is willing to stretch the truth. At her final Press Conference as House Speaker (thank goodness) Pelosi portrayed herself and fellow Democrats as Deficit hawks: Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay...

Abortion Advocates Bemoan Repeal Vote, Abortion De-Funding
The head one of the leading Abortion Advocacy Groups is already complaining about House Republicans and the vote they scheduled for next week to overturn abortion-funding ObamaCare. NARAL president Nancy Keenan doesn’t like that effort and is upset that GOP lawmakers will follow that vote with one on Legislation to ensure the ObamaCare law does not allow for any funding of abortions with Taxpayer money. “In addition to next week’s vote to Repeal the health-reform law, Boehner a...

Howard Dean: Health Care Mandate Doomed, Tea Party Uneasy About Diversity
Howard Dean -- doctor, former Presidential Candidate, former Democratic Party chairman and former Vermont Governor -- says the new Health Care law's Individual Mandate requiring people to buy Health Insurance is doomed and not necessary for the law to succeed. Dean offered up that unvarnished opinion and others Wednesday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, including his views on the upcoming White House staff shake-up and Speaker John Boehner's challenges with a Tea Party movement that De...

Boehner, Pelosi, and Humility
Speaker John Boehner will do himself and the whole pro-life movement proud, and save many vulnerable human beings, if he continues as he began today: determined and humble. During the passing of the gavel, the contrast in humility between former speaker Nancy Pelosi and Boehner was stark. Pelosi wanted more time, and was reluctant to pass the gavel. She put off doing so by outlining in great detail her own groundbreaking leadership and legislative accomplishments. Boehner pointed to how little t...

112th Congress officially sworn in, Boehner elected Speaker of the House
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011, marks the opening of the 112th Congress, with Republicans officially becoming the majority in the House of Representatives.  Among the new class of elected members is Raul Labrador, from Idaho's First Congressional District. John Boehner was officially elected Speaker of the House with 241 votes.  Nancy Pelosi was selected to be the Minority Leader, however, 19 Democrats voted against her. “The American People have humbled us. They have refreshed our...

Did Nancy Pelosi Speak Too Long During Boehners Ceremony? Brit Hume Thinks So
Fox host Megyn Kelly and her viewers were wondering whether it was customary for the outgoing Speaker of the House to give a Speech during the swearing in ceremony for the new Speaker? Fox’s senior analyst Brit Hume was on hand to provide his historical perspective that he remembered past Speakers only provided very brief comments, if they spoke at all. However, the trailblazing first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi had other plans. Pelosi gave a lengthy Speech where she thanked ...

Photo of the Day
Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (in blue) hands the speaker's gavel to incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) after Boehner was elected Speaker on the opening day of the 112th United States Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 5, 2011. [Reuters Pictures]Sob. And if that isn't enough to make your barf bieberous chunks, get a load of this pic of Boeher puckering up to plant one on Pelosi. Eugh. Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (in blue) hands the speaker's gavel...

No Speaker of the House?
As the House votes member by member on the nomination of Republican John Boehner to Speaker of the House, exactly who holds the position at this very moment? While Nancy Pelosi will be the one to ceremoniously hand over the gavel after the culmination of the vote, she doesn't actually hold the position now. Pelosi's term as Speaker ended at noon on Monday, which means there actually is not a House Speaker until, as expected, Boehner is sworn in later today. Behind the vice president and speake...