President Obama touts the up-from-the-bootstraps story of House Speaker John Boehner as an example of the power of opportunity in America President Obama touts the up-from-the-bootstraps story of ...

House Speaker John Boehner says House Republicans are united against a Senate bill to extend the payroll tax holiday but that may be the only way the majority in Congress's lower chamber is unified.

This post has been updated. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) walked into a press conference to announce his resignation on Friday singing “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” noting that it was “a wonderful day.” He ...

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, retained his post as Speaker of the House by winning 220 votes on the first ballot when the 133th Congress voted for leadership. There was speculation that Boehner could ...

WASHINGTON (WABC) -- With Congress in turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner abruptly informed fellow Republicans on Friday that he would resign from Congress at the end of October, stepping aside in the ...

Former House Speaker John Boehner will deliver a keynote address at HIMSS17, HIMSS announced. HIMSS has also revealed that IBM CEO Ginni Rometty will deliver the opening keynote and TV’s Shark Tank ...

Despite a rocky few weeks during the “fiscal cliff” fight, John Boehner won re-election as speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday and will lead Republicans as they take on the White House ...

John Boehner becomes the sixty-first Speaker of the House today, and the first from Ohio since Nicholas Longworth stepped down in 1931. Like Longworth, Boehner hails from Cincinnati. He no doubt hopes ...

As outgoing Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi officially handed over her job to John Boehner on Wednesday. In doing so, she gave him the House’s symbol of power: the Speaker’s gavel. “I now pass this ...

John Boehner made a startling revelation Tuesday in a new video released by his office: The Speaker of the House is little more than a wind-up monkey operated by his staff. The video, titled "Monkey ...

During House Speaker John Boehner’s first stint in the leadership in the mid 1990s, just about the only adornment on the walls of his tiny Capitol Hill office was a portrait of Nicholas Longworth, the ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan explains how his predecessor convinced him to take the job, and what advice Boehner gave him House Speaker Paul Ryan explains how his predecessor convinced him to take the job, ...