John Boehner

Just days before the election of a new speaker of the House, lame-duck Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, made good on one last promise — that he'd try to "clear the barn" for his successor.

The deal would take budget showdowns and government shutdown fights off the table until after the 2016 presidential election.

Passage of a budget and debt ceiling package this week would give Ryan more room to operate than Boehner ever had.

Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday announced his picks for the new Select Investigative Panel that will probe the practices of abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

The new panel has been created in the wake of several undercover videos that revealed Planned Parenthood’s questionable practice of selling aborted fetal tissue, and possibly profiting from the sales.

“Recent videos exposing the abortion-for-baby parts business have shocked the nation, and demanded action. At my request, three House committees have been in

Departing House Speaker John Boehner doesn’t want to leave increasing the debt ceiling to Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican expected to win an election to succeed him this coming week.

But Mr. Boehner (R., Ohio) has little time and few options to dispatch one of the most politically repellent issues for Republicans. That is likely to leave him with no other choice than to bring to the House floor early in the week legislation raising the federal government’s borrowing limit with n

A melee is likely if Paul Ryan says no to speaker, and that may postpone John Boehner's departure from Congress.

Democrats and independents have been looking a little more favorably on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) since he announced in September that he would be resigning from Congress.

Boehner's favorable rating has climbed to 31 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday. That's up 8 percentage points since August.

The House GOP’s leadership turmoil could help outgoing Speaker John Boehner tackle some of the chamber’s thorniest legislative business.

Mr. Boehner has said he wants to clear what legislation he can through the House to ease the path for his likely successor. That had been Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), until Mr. McCarthy unexpectedly withdrew from the race on Thursday. The conservative opposition that helped thwart Mr. McCarthy could make it more likely that Mr. Boehner remains at the helm of the House beyond Oct. 30

Nearly 150 members of Congress wrote to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday, urging him to take up legislation that would help stem gun violence.

"We call on you to bring to the Floor legislation that can protect innocent lives while safeguarding the rights of law abiding gun owners," reads the letter from Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), chairman of the bipartisan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. "No legislation will stop every tragedy, but passing commonsense gun laws will at least stop some."

The announcement by House Speaker John Boehner that he is retiring at the end of October stunned Washington, where life is all about grabbing power and holding on to it, often until death they do part.