The era of Chairman John Boehner - politico

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John Boehner had two decades to ponder the Congress--and how it is not functioning. Now, because it takes Maillet Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - California) Wednesday afternoon, finally gets a chance to rewrite the House to match his vision.

Ohio Republican, articulated through years of public comments and a new set of rules for the room plan promises a House restructured to make it easier to cut rather than stimulate spending, to empower the Presidents and activists in the legislative process legislators, to increase transparency and to rebuild the confidence of the public institution for these changes to establish a more coherent connection between what people want and what are their elected leaders.

Continuing the reading "John is the right person at the right time", elected Senator Rob Portman, who represented a nearby piece in the Cincinnati area for a dozen years, told POLITICO. "I think he understands the gravity that our country is facing financially and on the economic front as you saw in its approach to the provision of an oath and this week." … There is no triumphant, but it is in this regard. »

If it is successful, Boehner hopes to one day be compared to his model, fellow Ohio Republican Nicholas Longworth, a historic result President.

But his skills as a Manager and generating consensus will be tested at every turn - by eager conservatives for faster action, independent wary of ideological governance, by Democrats hungry for return in power and a more willing to report when it fails press corps has struck its lofty goals.

Unlike Longworth, who have gathered to power both in the Office of the speaker by the middle of the 1920s he threw recalcitrant off the coast of committees and was charged with "gagging" gentlemen, Boehner has promised to initiate the process by giving more time for legislation to sit in public, allowing both parties to offer amendments and to participate in developing the legislation at the level of the Committee members.

This is a view born promise of Boehner how the Chamber shall be executed and the need to appease activists tea whose mantra "read the Bill!" rang in the air outside the Capitol to the debate on the new law last year's massive health care.

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