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...typically quietly inserted into legislation at the last minute to allot money for pet projects in their home states - that has drawn the loudest criticism from two conservatives, Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, as well as House Minority Leader John Boehner, who have derided the measure as mostly ineffective...
...since the election, felt emboldened. "Congressional Democrats campaigned on restoring the bonds of trust between the American people and their elected leaders, but the fact is they have failed to deliver on any of their promises and have almost no accomplishments of which to speak," House Minority Leader John Boehner told TIME. "Their inability to govern is making it increasingly clear that there's a real crisis in leadership on Capitol Hill because nothing is getting accomplished...
...says Brian Kennedy, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. "This is a warning shot across the Democrats' bow," Kennedy says. "If you allow yourselves to spend willy-nilly, you're going to run the risk of facing a veto, and our numbers demonstrate that we have the ability and intention of sustaining that veto." That bravado, however, is also coupled with the begrudging realization that Republicans lost their majority last fall because of the perception that they were fiscally irresponsible. "The Republican leader has said any number of times that we need to earn...
...successfully last November on a pledge to end the “culture of corruption” created by 12 years of Republican rule in D.C.—of being hypocritical when one of their own was accused of ethical lapses. Republican leader John A. Boehner of Ohio has already taken steps to move for Jefferson’s expulsion from the House. Jefferson’s dramatic rise from a hardscrabble youth—the son of a sharecropper who never graduated from high school, he grew up in poverty with nine other siblings?...
...closed-door leadership elections, scheduled for next Friday, will give a clue as to how badly the G.O.P. thinks it needs to reform itself. Boehner took over his post only in February after replacing the scandal-plagued former Majority Whip, Tom DeLay. So much of the spending many House conservatives hated, such as the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill that President Bush pushed them to approve, happened before Boehner was in the leadership. And Boehner is famous for having never asked for any wasteful pork-barrel projects for his own district, a stance many fiscal conservatives like. Missouri congressman...