House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced Tuesday that he will only support raising the debt ceiling next year after lawmakers identify adequate spending cuts, mirroring the position he took last summer. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

House Speaker John Boehenr (R-Ohio) told a fiscal summit on Capitol Hill Tuesday that President Barack Obama lost the courage to make meaningful reforms during the last series of debt ceiling negotiations. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

House Speaker John Boehenr (R-Ohio) told a fiscal summit Tuesday that he will not accept tax increases or letting the Bush era tax cuts expire be part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

House Speaker John Boehenr (R-Ohio) told a fiscal summit Tuesday that he will schedule a vote to extend the Bush era tax cuts prior to the 2012 election. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

House Speaker John Boehenr (R-Ohio) told a fiscal summit Tuesday that if lawmakers can not agree to a bold enough plan to cut spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, he is open to a series of stop-gap measures to keep the U.S. from defaulting on its debt. [Audio…

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced Tuesday that he will only support raising the debt ceiling next year after lawmakers identify adequate spending cuts, mirroring the position he took during the same debate last summer. “When the time comes I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and…

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At the Center for Strategic & International Studies Thursday, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) expressed his skepticism in recent United States-Iran discussions concerning Iran’s nuclear program and the upcoming meeting of the two nations in Baghdad, Iraq. “I am not optimistic about the possible results of these ‘talks.’ The first talks…