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Boehner Says No More One on One Meetings With Obama

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: he’s telling Republicans he is done with private, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama. During both 2011 and 2012, the Speaker spent...

Obama Wants Free Hand to Raise Debt Ceiling

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)  said on Friday that Congress should hand over to President Barack Obama the power to unilateral increase the limit on the U.S. government’s debt. In effect, under the plan Pelosi is endorsing, the only limit on the...