John Boehner

Paul Ryan announces candidacy for House Speaker

U.S. Republican congressman Paul Ryan formally announced his candidacy for speaker of the House of R...

Oct 22, 2015 08:51 PM EDT

Republicans in chaos as favorite quits House leadership race

Republicans in Washington struggled to fill a leadership void on Thursday as the front-runner to tak...

Oct 08, 2015 10:11 PM EDT

House to vote on new speaker on October 29: Boehner

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote to elect its next speaker on Oct. 29, retiring House Spe...

Oct 05, 2015 09:14 PM EDT

Feted in China, Xi's U.S. profile dims in shadow of pope

On Friday morning, Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed the symbolic high point of his first state v...

Sep 27, 2015 07:41 AM EDT

Under pressure from the right, House Speaker Boehner quits

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will leave Congress at the end of October after s...

Sep 26, 2015 06:24 AM EDT

U.S. judge rules Republicans can pursue Obamacare lawsuit

A U.S. judge said on Wednesday congressional Republicans could move forward with parts of a lawsuit ...

Sep 09, 2015 08:42 PM EDT

IAEA says report Iran to inspect own military site is 'misrepresentation'

The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief on Thursday rejected as "a misrepresentation" suggestions Iran would...

Aug 20, 2015 06:47 PM EDT

Obama's Pacific trade pact revived in U.S. House, heads to Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday reversed course, approving "fast-track" legislation ce...

Jun 18, 2015 06:55 PM EDT

U.S. strike inadvertently killed U.S., Italian hostages; Obama apologizes

A U.S. drone strike in January targeting an al Qaeda compound in Pakistan near the Afghan border ina...

Apr 23, 2015 06:34 PM EDT

Japan PM Abe to address joint session of Congress

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Repr...

Mar 27, 2015 07:09 AM EDT

U.S. House Speaker Boehner to visit Israel

John Boehner, Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives at the center of a political f...

Mar 21, 2015 02:43 AM EDT

Israel's Netanyahu draws rebuke from Obama over Iran speech to Congress

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the United States on Tuesday that it was negotiatin...

Mar 03, 2015 05:56 PM EST

House breaks impasse, passes security funding without provisions

The House of Representatives approved full fiscal-year funding for the U.S. domestic security agency...

Mar 03, 2015 05:38 PM EST

Congress averts security agency shutdown with one-week spending fix

The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval on Friday to a one-week stopgap spending bill ...

Feb 28, 2015 03:17 AM EST

Boehner defends Netanyahu's upcoming speech to Congress

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday challenged an assertion by the Obama ...

Feb 27, 2015 06:48 AM EST

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