Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Just hours before the House tries to pass its third short-term spending bill, House Speaker John Boehner tried to show his conference they are in the driving seat when it comes to cutting spending. In a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference, the Ohio Republican told his members that President Barack Obama wanted to couple a vote on raising the debt limit with the continuing resolution to fund the government, but the GOP leadership "knocked it off the table." |