Boehner considers raising debt limit without a fight

Speaker of the House John Boehner erroneously claims that the legislation implementing the new debt limit agreement does not allow the joint ...

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, politically weakened by recent budget battles including the "fiscal cliff," has different ideas.

There's no reason this couldn't be a model for the debt limit fight as well. The House can pass a bill with an absurd Christmas wish list of ...

But he has also said that he believes raising the debt ceiling is ... raise the debt ceiling,” Boehner said in a TV appearance Sunday.

When Boehner and the GOP took the House majority at the beginning of 2011, the speaker laid down a new principle: Republicans would not pass an ...

The Rules Committee approved a rule late Thursday that would allow Boehner to make changes to his bill and immediately bring it to the floor ...

House Speaker John Boehner warned a New York business group that Republicans would oppose raising the debt ceiling unless the Obama ...

Without Republican cooperation to raise or suspend the debt limit, Senate Democrats could change Senate rules with a simple majority vote to ...

While the party seems to be edging away from a shutdown fight, GOP members aren't entirely united behind the debt-ceiling bill that Boehner is ...

The vote was so grueling that, in a subsequent fight over spending limits in 2014, Boehner raised the ceiling with no strings attached. “One ...

House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that any increase in the government's debt limit should be accompanied by trillions of dollars in ...

The Gephardt Rule may be a more efficient way to raise the debt ceiling from a legislator's perspective, but until the parties can come to a ...

While that would still leave the Treasury short of funds to pay other government obligations, it would not — contrary to what we originally ...

The next day, the Senate voted 55-43 to pass the bill without any Republican votes. “A clean debt ceiling is a complete capitulation on the ...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former Speaker John Boehner both face or faced contentious negotiations over the debt ceiling, but as the ...

With his speakership on the line, Boehner says he has no intention of backing down, responding, "I've made it clear that we're not going to ...

“Can't really say anything else at this point.” In the past, the Speaker has adopted the so-called Boehner Rule in debt-limit negotiations, ...

Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has indicated that he's willing to consider a “clean” bill that raises the debt ceiling without ...

"Speaker [John] Boehner and a hypothetical Speaker McCarthy are different animals," a former House Republican who served during the 2011 crisis ...

Boehner wants spending cuts and reforms larger than the amount of the debt ceiling hike, while Obama wants to separate the debt limit from the ...