"All politics is local, " Mary Hawkesworth said, quoting former speaker of the US House of Representatives Thomas "Tip" O'Neill.
The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives has accused President Barack Obama of "a lack of clarity" and "lack of visibility and leadership" over the Nato mission in Libya.
House Speaker John Boehner told US media on Wednesday said that immigration was the only issue on Mr Obama's state of the union list that had any chance in Congress this year.
The Speaker of the House sent us a proposal that was two pages long that included one sentence on revenue.
"I think the debt crisis that we face requires us to make serious decisions, and it requires us to make those decisions now, " GOP House Speaker John Boehner said Friday in response to reporters' questions about his views on Medicare.
And yet, the man with the plan to be speaker of the House, John Boehner, attacked us for closing corporate tax loopholes and using the money to keep hundreds of thousands of essential personnel on the jobs all across the states.
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Do you want us to come away with the thought that the Speaker came to the White House and that two men did not discuss these two things?
House Speaker NANCY PELOSI (Democrat, California): Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money.
"This legislation is wise, it has consensus, it brings us together in a bipartisan way, and we are definitely going to leave no veterans behind, " House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said during a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday for a new GI Bill.
On Friday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner reiterated his party's refusal to allow taxes to rise and challenged the gridlocked US Senate to pass a bill first before the House acted on a plan.
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