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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: hes telling Republicans he is done with private, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama.
During both 2011 and 2012, the Speaker spent weeks shuttling between the Capitol and the White House for meetings with the president in the hopes of striking a grand bargain on the deficit.
Those efforts ended in failure, leaving Boehner feeling burned by Obama and, at times, isolated within his conference.
In closed-door meetings since leaving the fiscal cliff talks two weeks ago, lawmakers and aides say the Speaker has indicated he is abandoning that approach for good and will return fully to the normal legislative process in 2013 seeking to pass bills through the House that can then be adopted, amended or reconciled by the Senate.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/275295-boehner-tells-gop-hes-done-with-one-on-one-obama-talks
frazzled
(18,402 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Put a fork in him.
Skraxx
(2,967 posts)Like Obama has done, yeah, I'd be done with them too. ROFL!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)We'll even see an honest-to-goodness conference committee maybe.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Its about time.
spanone
(135,778 posts)lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)Which, of course, is entirely as it should be.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)rocktivity
(44,571 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 3, 2013, 05:14 PM - Edit history (1)
at getting babies to stop crying.
rocktivity
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)with Barack Obama?".........
(No pun intended).