• Republican SCHIP Alternative Ensures Program Serves Low-Income Children First
    Jan 14, 2009  - Republicans created the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997 to provide health insurance for low-income children.  From the outset, the program was focused on needy children, and it has enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress for more than a decade.  On the House floor today, how... More
  • Boehner Floor Speech on Democrat SCHIP Proposal
    Jan 14, 2009  - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today delivered remarks on the House floor during debate on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  Full video and transcript of Boehner’s speech follow:      Click HERE to View Video   “Madam Speaker, thank you and let me thank my ... More
  • House Republican Leaders Urge President-elect Obama, Speaker Pelosi to Consider GOP Principles for Strengthening Children’s Health Program
    Jan 12, 2009  - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) wrote to President-elect Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the weekend, urging them to consider a series of principles established by House Republicans during the debate on reauthorizing the Stat... More
  • Boehner Statement on Energy & Commerce Committee Chairmanship
    Nov 20, 2008  - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on the House Democratic Caucus’ decision to replace Energy & Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in the 111th Congress:   “This decision sends a troubling signal from a Majority tha... More
  • Boehner: Democratic Leaders Put Our Children & Grandchildren at Risk by Ignoring the Entitlement Crisis
    Jul 24, 2008  - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement opposing legislation (H. Res. 1368) to block a proposal to bring fiscal stability to the Medicare program:   “Earlier this year, the Majority Leader punted on the issue of Medicare reform, saying it was an issue ... More
  • Boehner Statement on the June Employment Report
    Jul 3, 2008  - After this morning’s release of the U.S. Labor Department’s monthly employment report, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement:   “Today’s report is the clearest evidence yet of the destructive impact the Democrats’ economic policies are having on American... More
  • On PBS' Newshour, Boehner Highlights House Republican Plan to Help Lower Gas Prices
    Jun 20, 2008  - Appearing last night on PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed with anchor Judy Woodruff the House GOP’s “all of the above” plan to reduce America’s dependence on foreign sources of energy and lower gas prices, as well as Republican efforts to keep taxes ... More
  • House GOP Leaders Discuss New Agenda to Provide the Change America Deserves
    May 15, 2008  - House Republicans began rolling out an agenda of reforms yesterday, the first phase of a larger GOP effort to demonstrate to Americans that Republicans will deliver the change they deserve.  After the GOP Conference meeting this morning, House Republican leaders discussed the agenda that puts the fo... More
  • As Democrats Refuse to Fix Washington, House GOP to Unveil "Change You Deserve" Reforms
    May 12, 2008  - Families and small businesses are facing soaring costs on everything from gasoline and food to health care and mortgages.  But instead of getting meaningful answers from this Democratic Congress, all they’ve gotten are skyrocketing energy prices, no real reforms on health care, a “housing bill” that... More
  • House Democrats Offer Nothing But Empty Promises on Social Security and Medicare Reform
    Mar 26, 2008  - The trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs have issued yet another alarming report about the future of the two entitlement programs.  The bottom line: without reform, the Medicare and Social Security trust funds will both be headed for bankruptcy within the next several decades.  Thi... More