Comparatively, the th Congress had 4. In January , Boehner said he believed supply management would be successfully left out of the farm bill in Peterson and others are aware of that. On September 30, , the House passed a final stopgap spending bill before the shutdown went into effect. The bill included a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and would have also stripped the bill of federal subsidies for congressional members and staff.
It passed through the House with a vote of In short order, Sen. Harry Reid rejected the call to conference. The shutdown ended on October 16, , when the House took a vote on HR after it was approved by the Senate. Federal employees also received retroactive pay for the shutdown period.
The only concession made by Senate Democrats was to require income verification for Obamacare subsidies. Boehner voted for HR Prior to both votes, Boehner released a statement on September 29, , blasting Senate Democratic leaders over the looming shutdown.
He said, "If the Senate stalls until Monday afternoon instead of working today, it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the Senate Democratic leadership. The American people will not stand for it.
Boehner refused his pay for the duration of the shutdown. On July 30, , the U. House approved a resolution to to sue President Barack Obama for exceeding his constitutional authority.
All Democrats voted against the resolution. Boehner voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in and while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels.
He was 1 of 85 Republicans that voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a - vote on January 1, Boehner supported President Barack Obama 's proposed military strikes against Syria. He stated, "The use of these weapons has to be responded to and only the United States has the capability and the capacity to stop Assad and to warn others around the world that this type of behavior is not to be tolerated.
In September , Russia's President Vladimir Putin wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times arguing that the Syrian government was not responsible for the use of chemical weapons. In response, Boehner stated that he was insulted by Putin's editorial. When asked to elaborate, he replied:. Boehner commented on the debate over extending unemployment benefits. He said, "One month ago I personally told the White House that another extension of temporary emergency unemployment benefits should not only be paid for but include something to help put people back to work.
To date, the president has offered no such plan. John Boehner endorsed Mitt Romney in the presidential election. On January 6, , Boehner was re-elected as Speaker of the House with out of votes cast. Twenty-five Republicans cast votes against Boehner.
Three other Republicans, Reps. Webster received 12 votes, while various other Republicans received three or less votes. During the swearing-in ceremony and election for Speaker of the House , nine Republican members of Congress either voted for someone other than Boehner or abstained and voted present. This was a change from the Speaker election in , when the entire Republican caucus voted for him, then members. Boehner won re-election to the speakership with votes.
He needed a majority of members voting, which was of the who voted. Not all members who voted for someone other than Boehner or Pelosi voted for a current member of the U. House, although all previous speakers had been. On September 25, , Boehner announced that he would resign the speakership and his seat at the end of October When he announced the move, Boehner told reporters that he was leaving to avoid conflict with members of his caucus who disagreed with his leadership decisions.
Michael Hoyt, Boehner's bartender at Wetherington Country Club, was indicted on January 14, , for plotting to kill Boehner either by poisoning his drink or shooting him. Hoyt had been fired from the country club and appeared to be troubled, claiming that he was Jesus and Boehner was the Devil.
The report stated, "Hoyt told the officer he was Jesus Christ and he was going to kill Boehner because Boehner was mean to him at the country club and because Boehner is responsible for Ebola. He told Leno he was not planning to run for president in He said, "Listen, I like to play golf. I like to cut my own grass. You know, I do drink red wine.
I smoke cigarettes. And I'm not giving that up to be president of the United States. He said, "When I looked up, I saw my colleagues going this way. And you learn that a leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk.
So I said, 'You want to fight this fight? I'll go fight the fight with you. The more noise that they create, and the more attention they get, the more money they raise. But nobody in the press paid any attention to them.
And then along came talk radio and hour cable news. The internet and social media platforms [have] given some of the crazier members [of Congress] a platform for which to create themselves out of virtually nothing. You talk about an unwillingness in both parties to tackle immigration. The Senate did pass a bipartisan deal in , but you chose not to put it on the floor for a vote. Do you have regrets about that? I thought a better way to do it would be to break the large Senate bill into maybe four or five pieces.
But a leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk. And my members just did not want to deal with this. Every time we would get close to getting ready to do something, he would light the immigration issue on fire. Our immigration system is totally broken, from top to bottom.
And it needs to be addressed, but it needs to be addressed in a bipartisan way. Boehner also had exceptionally harsh words for Sen. In an excerpt of the book that was reported by Politico, Boehner wrote: "And now they had a new head lunatic leading the way, who wasn't even a House member. There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless a--hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz. Axios reported Boehner also went off-script at one point when recording the audio version of his memoir, adding: "Oh, and Ted Cruz, go f yourself.
Have a news tip? Contact this reporter at kvlamis insider. For you. He said that former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, for example, had "made a name for herself as a lunatic" after first being elected in And yet she demanded a seat on the prestigious and highly sought-after House Ways and Means Committee. In the days of yore, Boehner said, the House speaker would simply brush off such an audacious request.
But Bachmann had the increasingly powerful conservative media apparatus at her disposal and could use it to cause even more trouble for him. Eventually, Boehner compromised and gave her a seat on the House Committee on Intelligence, a still-distinguished committee assignment that would allow her to build up some foreign policy credentials to fit her presidential aspirations. But his troubles with Tea Party-style elected officials with national ambitions didn't end there — and weren't limited to his side of the Capitol.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz," he wrote.
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