Speaker John Boehner, who appeared stoic throughout much of the morning’s proceedings, had an emotional moment after embracing a departing Gabby Giffords.

One of the key strategies President Obama is utilizing in his reelection bid this year is to run against the “do-nothing Congress,” and on Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace asked House Speaker John Boehner to respond to that line of attack and the notion that Congress has been increasingly ineffective. Boehner argued that the focus of House Republicans over the past few months has been on job creation, and pointed to recent successes on the payroll tax cut and unemployment as evidence that Congress has been able to work with the president.

Speaker of the House John Boehner lambasted President Obama for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline during a press conference Wedneday. “President Obama expedited approval of the Solyndra loan project, but won’t approve a project that’s been under review for over three years…President Obama is destroying tens of thousands of American jobs and shipping American energy security to the Chinese.”

House Republicans have taken a decent share of ridicule over their cinematic motivational rituals, but now, they’re even taking friendly fire over their use of the film Braveheart‘s central character, William Wallace, to get pumped about the payroll tax cut fight. In an interview with Fox Business’s Connell McShane, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said he was in the Braveheart meeting, and was thinking “Mel Gibson was also in Gallipoli, which was one of the worst military defeats ever.”

This morning on Fox and Friends, a panel led by Brian Kilmeade discussed the payroll tax deal reached by Congress late Thursday. While the consensus was that John Boehner‘s job is safe — and Jon Bramick, a New Jersey lawyer, said that Boehner showed some impressive leadership skills — it was Dan Gerstein, a Democratic strategist, who stole the show, giving a concise, pointed statement on just how bad things have gotten in Congress.

“Who killed John Boehner‘s career here?” Rachel Maddow would like to know, making it pretty clear she thinks that Boehner won’t still be Speaker of the House this time next year. “This is not John Boehner tripping and falling,” she continued. “This looks like John Boehner was pushed.” She then compared his lack of support to Will Ferrell’s character’s one-man streaking fiasco in Old School and showed, like, half the movie as evidence.

On Thursday, Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren chatted with Rep. Allen West (R-FL) about an “unidentified Republican congressman” who has said Speaker John Boehner may not be keeping his speakership for long. West said he doesn’t know who might have said that, adding that he feels a bit like Charlie Brown when Lucy swipes the football out from underneath him.

House Speaker John Boehner announced Thursday that a compromise had been reached with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid to extend the payroll tax cut. “Senator Reid and I have reached an agreement that will ensure taxes do not increase for working families on January 1 while ensuring that a complex new reporting burden is not unintentionally imposed on small business job creators,” Bohener said in a statement of the agreement made with Reid.

Yesterday, we told you about C-SPAN going silent following an awkward interaction between Rep. Steny Hoyer and his Republican colleagues who walked out of the chamber as he tried to call for a vote to extend the payroll tax. RELATED: C-SPAN Says Speaker Boehner’s Office Is To Blame For Channel Going Silent After Call For [...]

President Obama turned up the heat on House Speaker John Boehner in the battle over extending the payroll tax cut Thursday afternoon, delivering yet another set of remarks aimed at shaming the House into passing a compromise deal that the Senate has already overwhelmingly approved. This time, the President used the fruits of the #40Dollars social media campaign to bombard the House GOP with the tales of sacrifice that Americans have shared over the loss of $40 in their paychecks.

This morning, as Maryland’s Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) tried to call for a vote to extend the payroll tax, his Republican colleagues adjourned the House and proceeded to walk out of the chamber one by one. Then, as Hoyer chastised them for leaving, C-SPAN unceremoniously went silent and cut its coverage. C-SPAN later explained that [...]

In an implicit jab to President Obama, who returned a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill back to the UK in 2009 while Oval Office was undergoing remodeling, Speaker of the House John Boehner is bringing the statue back to Congress.

Responding to charges made by President Obama last Sunday that the number one agenda for Congressional Republicans has been to oppose everything he favors, Speaker John Boehner denied this was the case, and in fact accused the president of being more unwilling to compromise on issues like entitlement spending than himself and other Republicans. Boehner insisted there is merely a difference of opinion between the two sides, and the goal of working with the president is to set those differences aside and find any common ground to build on.

The host at the core of MSNBC’s primetime lineup, the head of Newsweek and the President of the United States are all among the “Least Influential People Alive,” at least according to GQ, set to dole out the full list of dubious distinctions next month. The ego-crushing list also includes some random no-brainers like Tim Pawlenty and Tia and Tamara Mowry, but also seems to consider President Obama among those least relevant.

In the past week or so, the nation’s capital was all atwitter with the presence of Steve Kroft and his 60 Minutes crew, who were reported to be investigating the cozy relationships between members of congress and business leaders affected by legislation passed by congress itself. Tonight the segment aired, featuring some classic 60 Minutes style ambush questions — in a press room setting — in which Kroft challenged both Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner may have benefited from stock purchases based on non-public information they’d received.

House Speaker John Boehner recently spoke with Newsmax editor David Patten about a variety of issues relating to the White House. Up first: The Obama administration’s role — or lack thereof — in the House’s probe into Solyndra’s bankruptcy.

Is that part of a pattern of obstruction?

On This Week today, Speaker of the House John Boehner admitted his personal and professional relationship with President Obama has gotten “frosty” recently, but both sides have been doing their best to find common ground and work together on the important issues. Christiane Amanpour asked Boehner to weigh in on the current Republican presidential field, but the Speaker did not give his support to anyone in particular and promised he would throw his weight behind the eventual nominee.

A simple yes or no would have sufficed, but when House Speaker John Boehner was asked whether anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist was a positive influence on his caucus, he feigned ignorance.

“It’s not often I’m asked about some random person in America,” he said.

Earlier today, Mediaite Managing Editor Colby Hall gleefully reported that ESPN had pulled Hank Williams Jr.’s iconic “Are You Ready For Some Football” song from last night’s Monday Night Football broadcast, in response to remarks that Hank made, on Fox and Friends, in which he compared President Obama’s golf outing with Speaker John Boehner to an outing [...]

What do you do if you get an email from someone named “Boehner” with the subject line “Gone ‘Soft?’”

You reply, “Nope, strong like bull!” and put it in the “spam” folder with all of the other pitches for cheap Viagra substitutes. In perhaps the least self-aware move in the history of new media, Speaker John Boehner‘s office sent out a “Speaker Alert” email with just that subject line, pegged to remarks by President Obama in an interview last week.

Who is David Lewis and what is he doing giving House Speaker John Boehner a primary challenge? While his origins are somewhat unclear, the Tea Party activist’s agenda was on full display today on Your World, where Lewis told host Neil Cavuto he considered Rep. Boehner a “socialist,” that the Tea Party movement was still “figuring out” whether it was socialist itself, and that Planned Parenthood is a “criminal syndicate.”

Ok, everyone, are you sitting down? Is there anyone with heart condition reading? Are your shoes strong enough to withstand your socks literally being blown off your feet?

Is everyone ready? Ok, then. Here comes the bombshell; Rush Limbaugh didn’t like Barack Obama’s remarks this morning about his jobs bill.

One of the biggest topics on the Sunday talk shows today is guaranteed to be reports of a new tax plan being proposed by President Barack Obama tomorrow that would increase taxes on millionaires. The tentative proposal will be called, according to The New York Times, the “Buffett Rule,” after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has been vocal in recent months about similar tax increases on the wealthy.

Since delivering his powerful speech unveiling the American Jobs Act, President Obama has kept up the pressure on Congressional Republicans, and it appears to be working. Immediately following the speech, House leaders showed faint signs of openness to the measure, and Speaker John Boehner even left a tiny bit of wiggle room on tax loopholes in his speech yesterday. Right on cue, the President’s own party is riding in to rescue the GOP from the clever political trap he has laid for them.

Who says we can’t all just get along? House Speaker John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden shared a nice moment moment while they waited on the President’s arrival last night, and because they didn’t know the mics were live, we are privy to their very real and pretty cute pre-show chatter. Apparently Boehner shot a pretty good round of golf during his vacation!