It was a deal that Speaker Boehner made as well, and all the leadership made.
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Speaker Boehner and Mitch McConnell both said they have to be on the table.
On the contraception issue, Speaker Boehner is promising to repeal the rule through legislation.
President Obama and House Speaker Boehner did meet face-to-face on Sunday to discuss the matter.
And also, sir, quickly, what does this say about your relationship with Speaker Boehner?
Speaker Boehner is questioning the White House claim that this is going to create 3, 000 jobs.
And I want to say I appreciate Speaker Boehner's good-faith efforts on that front.
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According to multiple sources, the conversation yesterday between the President and Speaker Boehner was tense.
It is hard to understand why Speaker Boehner would walk away from this kind of deal.
So if that is their attitude, why are you confident that Speaker Boehner can compromise any more?
To be sure, Speaker Boehner and other Republican leaders have been at pains to allay such concerns.
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It turns out that Speaker Boehner may be the only semi-reasonable man left in the Republican Party.
That has happened once, and it happened last year, and Speaker Boehner was Speaker of the House.
The package that I offered to Speaker Boehner before we -- before the New Year would achieve that.
In that same article in the Wall Street Journal Speaker Boehner boasts about using the sequester as leverage.
President Obama and House Speaker Boehner met Thursday afternoon to talk about the matter, but no agreement resulted.
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But battle lines were drawn earlier on Friday, as Speaker Boehner restated his party's opposition to tax increases.
Every House Republican leader voted for it enthusiastically, and Speaker Boehner said he was pretty pleased with the outcome.
Charlie Sheen may be making more sense than Speaker Boehner, but unlike Sheen, the Speaker is clearly not winning.
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More of the same occurred Friday, including U.S. House Speaker Boehner saying little progress had been made in negotiations.
"Yeah, right, " Speaker Boehner replied to laughter as the two men shook hands.
House Speaker Boehner and President Obama met again Monday morning on the matter.
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Does he feel he has that now that Speaker Boehner is talking about rates as part of the conversation?
Today the President made separate phone calls to Speaker Boehner and Leader Reid.
It was good advice, I suppose at the time, but perhaps not in the way that Speaker Boehner meant it.
Speaker Boehner makes the claim that Congress is bound by the CBO current law baseline that accounts for reality.
It is the principle that informed the proposals he put forward in his good-faith negotiations with Speaker Boehner in December.
Again, his proposal for revenue through tax reform is substantially lower than what Speaker Boehner said was possible just in December.
But we also need Republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform that Speaker Boehner championed just two months ago.
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And do you guys expect Senator McConnell rather than Boehner -- Speaker Boehner to be your dance partner in coming negotiations?
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