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...Former Speaker John Boehner once likened it to keeping “218 frogs in a wheelbarrow”. Yet Johnson’s task is harder than most, given the exceedingly narrow margin by which his party controls the chamber....
...House Republicans will choose between Scalise, who has climbed up the leadership ladder for the past decade, and Jordan, whom former Republican House Speaker John Boehner once described as a “legislative...
...John Boehner, who was the Republican Speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015, once likened the job to keeping “218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed”....
...John Boehner, a former Republican Speaker whose career Jordan helped to end, called him a “legislative terrorist”....
...The debt ceiling stand-off will prove less painful for investors than a similar showdown in 2011 between former president Barack Obama and John Boehner, then the Republican Speaker of the House....
...This week I pictured John Boehner, who fell victim to similar forces as McCarthy, swirling a glass of merlot on his Ohio porch and giving thanks to the day he retired....
...Like other Speakers before him, McCarthy will need to wrangle a raucous band of lawmakers; former Speaker John Boehner once likened the job to keeping “218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill...
...Neither is McCarthy the first Republican to suffer: just ask former Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan....
...Many of the same individuals who opposed McCarthy’s Speakership also caused headaches for Paul Ryan and John Boehner, the two previous Republican Speakers....
...John Boehner was forced to step down as Speaker in 2015 after proving incapable of controlling his caucus; his successor Paul Ryan was no more successful, deciding to retire after little more than two years...
...John Boehner, the Republican House leader, had no control of his caucus. Pelosi, who led a far more fractious party, never lost her grip on hers....
...McCarthy will be like John Boehner squared — unable to ride his party’s tiger or tame it....
...The book cites John Boehner, who when he was speaker of the US House of Representatives, declared that debt arising from the financial crisis was immoral....
...At the end of the audio version of John Boehner’s book, the former Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives ad-libs a closing line: “PS, Ted Cruz: Go fuck yourself.”...
...By 2017, he was leading the Freedom Caucus, a Tea Party-inspired group that clashed repeatedly with John Boehner, the Republican House speaker, whom Meadows unsuccessfully tried to oust....
...He was a co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, a group of young hardliners who made life miserable for John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House....
...The Democrats are going to have to find ways to head off the worst-case scenarios that back in 2011, the Republican speaker, John Boehner, managed to keep us from going over the cliff into default....
...Meanwhile, John Boehner, who led the Republican-controlled House of Representatives during Barack Obama’s term as Tea party lawmakers laid the groundwork for Trumpism, issued his own call for change....
...Swampians might also enjoy my review of former House speaker John Boehner’s deliciously profane memoir....
...Jim Jordan, the Ohio congressman who helped dethrone John Boehner as the Republican House Speaker in 2015, urged the party to oust Ms Cheney from her role as House Republican Conference Chair....
...Boehner....
...Boehner, and frequent Trump critic....
...Michelle Malkin, a Fox News contributor, called it a “piece of crap”, and John Boehner, then the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, demanded its retraction....
...John Lewis looms large in Clayton County....
...Among them was then House minority leader John Boehner, the point person for the George W Bush administration on trying to get the economy going again. He met Mr Paulson on January 23, 2008....
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