Speaker's Blog

How Will Importing Dangerous Terrorists Make America Safer? (Boehner Op-Ed on BigGovernment.com)

December 14, 2009

Today the Obama Administration is announcing it plans to import the terrorists held at the Guantanamo Bay prison – some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world – to the Thomson Correctional Center located outside Chicago, Illinois.  This decision puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security of the American people.  Here’s how I addressed this issue at a press conference on Capitol Hill this morning: Read More

A Better Plan For Jobs (Boehner Op-Ed in The Washington Post)

December 10, 2009

During a meeting at the White House this week, House Republican leaders presented President Obama with a plan to create jobs and get our economy moving again. It is a responsible blueprint for action based on common-sense solutions that recognize that small business, not government, is the engine of job creation in America. Read More

Republicans Have the Answers Obama Seeks on Creating Jobs (Boehner Op-Ed in the Allentown Morning Call)

December 03, 2009

President Obama will have plenty of explaining to do when he arrives in Allentown today. More than 3 million Americans have lost their jobs in the nine months since he signed into law a trillion-dollar ''stimulus'' that was supposed to put people back to work ''immediately.'' Only one in eight Pennsylvanians, according to a recent Franklin & Marshall College survey, feel they have benefited from ''national economic recovery efforts.''  Read More

Five Common-Sense Steps to Change a Broken Congress (Boehner Op-Ed on BigGovernment.com)

November 17, 2009

The American people have had it with “business as usual” in Congress.  They are fed up with practices such as tucking special-interest provisions into bills behind closed doors, secretly changing bills without a vote, and passing bills no one has read.  This has happened for far too long, but never before has the need for reform been more apparent than in the past year under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her Democratic majority. Read More

Republicans Offer Health Care Americans Want (Boehner Op-Ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer)

November 06, 2009

Republicans are offering a step-by-step, common-sense approach to health care reform - an altogether better solution than the 2,032-page government takeover of health care being pushed through Congress by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.We’ve introduced a bill to lower costs, and increased access to high-quality care - a bill the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed will lower premiums by up to 10 percent, without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses. Read More

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