West Chester township officials speak about John Boehner’s resignation

“He is proud of what this majority has accomplished, and his Speakership, but for the good of the Republican Conference and the institution, he will resign the Speakership and his seat in Congress, effective October 30”.

Rep. John Mica said Friday that Boehner “just does not want to become the issue”.

That, he said, “is who John Boehner is”. Shortly after arriving in Washington, McCarthy began navigating the leadership waters and secured several lower-profile posts.

“Presumably he’ll land a cushy K Street job, after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama’s priorities”, said Cruz.

To avoid a shutdown, something truly dramatic would have to happen – something like the Speaker of the House announcing his resignation in the middle of his term. I woke up. I said my prayers, as I always do, and decided today was the day I’ll do that. On and on and on – even with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate.

Marco Rubio (R-Florida). The presidential candidate and freshman senator, minutes after news leaked from the House Republican conference meeting, told a crowd at the Values Voter Summit in Washington that Boehner was resigning.

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“Speaker Boehner was able to transform a broken and dispirited Republican minority into the largest Republican majority since the 1920s”. Buoyed by a series of undercover videos taken by anti-abortion activists, conservative members of the GOP have been pressing Boehner to tie a measure stripping funds from the healthcare organization into a must-pass budget bill.

“The country will be better served with a strong conservative speaker”.

“The reason he’s so successful with the members is he knows their districts in addition to knowing them”, said Erica Elliott, a former aide and confidante. But Boehner will leave behind a stack of other problems, including the new December funding deadline, a crucial highway bill, and the annual battle over the federal borrowing limit. As majority leader, Scalise said he would work with every Republican to advance conservative legislation, and said he would ensure the House took the steps to develop consensus within the caucus.

“I’ve done everything I can”, he told a news conference at which he confirmed he would be gone in five weeks. McCarthy is a close Boehner ally and would likely continue the negotiations that are already underway, but House conservatives could still pressure future leaders to be more accommodating of their demands.

Outside tea party groups also declared victory, underscoring a schism between conservative base voters and establishment leaders that has made Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell almost as scorned in some quarters of the GOP as Obama himself.

He added, “To me, that’s not appropriate, when someone has just announced that they’re going to be retiring for the good of the institution, to make any statement that would not be positive toward what he’s done”.

“When we returned to Congress from the August recess, the lack of support for the speaker was palpable”, Massie said.

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, another Boehner antagonist, said, “This is a condition of his own making”.