John Boehner
John Boehner
John Andrew Boehneris an American politician who served as the 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Boehner was the U.S. Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, serving from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 November 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. None of these programs have worked. I don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. All it does is delay the clearing of the market. As soon as the market clears and we understand where the prices really are - [that] will be the most important thing we can do in order to improve home values around the country.
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Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.
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Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.
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The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
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Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.
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Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.
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I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.
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I'm eager for the House to vote, and I remain hopeful that the Senate will move its reform package so we can send a bill to the president by the end of the year.
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I've got 11 brothers and sisters and my dad owned a bar. It's great training for what I do every day. You stand behind a bar, and it doesn't take long to sort of size people up.
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No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
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It's hard running for office when people can't say your name.
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We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.
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We have a busy schedule of hearings and markups already on the schedule for the next month, so we'll be looking to hold the hearing at the earliest date possible after that.
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We need to secure the long-term future of the federal student loan programs, and we can only accomplish that by placing them on a more solid financial footing.