Dan Webster Not Sure if He’ll Try Again to be House Speaker

“The spin is going to come from every different angle”, Bishop said.

Boehner, Speaker of the House since 2011, announced on Friday that he will be stepping down as Speaker of the House and leaving Congress altogether at the end of October. “That a young man from Reading, Ohio wielding a bar towel could one day wield the gavel of the U.S. House of Representatives, it reminds us of the continuing promise of this country”.

“This turmoil that’s been churning now for a couple of months is not good for the members, it’s not good for the institution”, he said.

But although he is known as a strong conservative, his tactics were never confrontational enough to satisfy the most conservative faction in the House.

Like Boehner, McCarthy is a realist.

Durbin says the Senate will vote next week to extend the budget deadline to December 11th. “He didn’t try to orchestrate everything”.

Boehner, an Ohio Republican, has fought off challenges from the conservative wing of his party for years, and appeared poised to do again.

Republicans said Thursday that the House will vote next week on a stop-gap spending bill to fund the government after September 30, without the controversial language that would defund Planned Parenthood. She sent us this statement saying: “Even when he (Boehner) and I did not agree, I appreciated that he still told me the truth”. “But you have to work with people who you disagree with, and sometimes strongly, in order to do the people’s business”.

As recently as yesterday, another Republican-imposed government shutdown seemed nearly inevitable.

California Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin have been mentioned as possible successors, though Ryan, the choice of many conservatives, apparently doesn’t want the job.

Newberger says Boehner served as the political glue holding together a Republican House sharply divided between hard-line conservatives and more moderate members of the party.

Politico reporter Jake Sherman said he asked the question following the pope’s historic speech to Congress.

“He did that today and I respect him for it a great deal”, said the Republican Congressman who represents The Villages.

“I got exhausted of the same rhetoric with him all the time”, Richard Darling “They all say this and that and they didn’t get anything done”.

“America is at an incredibly perilous time in our history; we need bold leadership more than ever, and the Speaker now has graciously given us that opportunity”.