John Boehner: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: CBS News - John Boehner: Many in GOP today "believe more in making noise than in making policy". Oct 30, 2026
Add new Web site: NBC News - Full Boehner: 'I don't think I could have done more' on 'knucklehead caucus'. Feb 21, 2026
Add new Web site: CBS News - John Boehner: Many in GOP today "believe more in making noise than in making policy". Jan 10, 2026
Anniversary information added. Nov 13, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC News - 'This Week' Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner. Aug 01, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - John Boehner On The 'Noisemakers' Of The Republican Party. Jun 20, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - Profile: John Boehner. Apr 24, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS SoCal - FRONTLINE - Interview: John Boehner. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: The New York Times - John Boehner: From Speaker of the House to Cannabis Pitchman. Sep 13, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 01, 2024
Add new Web site: The Harry Walker Agency - John Boehner. Feb 26, 2024
Updated with reference to Jim Jordan. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of John Boehner. Jan 16, 2023
Added the memoir On the House. Apr 15, 2021
Add new Web site: CNN Politics - John Boehner is who we thought he was after all. Sep 28, 2018
Added information about his post-congressional career. Apr 12, 2018
Closed out his term in the House of Representatives. Oct 29, 2015
Added information about his tenure as speaker, notably his difficulties with conservative Republicans. Sep 25, 2015
Added the announcement that he was resigning from Congress in October 2015. Sep 25, 2015
Added a discussion of his role in the debt-ceiling talks of 2011. Aug 03, 2011
He became speaker of the House in January 2011. Jan 05, 2011
In November 2010 he was elected the next speaker of the House. Nov 17, 2010
Updated to mention Boehner's opposition to Obama's health care reform and financial regulations. Nov 03, 2010
Added photograph. Dec 09, 2009
Added mention of his opposition to Pres. Barack Obama's health-care reform plan in 2009. Nov 05, 2009
Added photograph. Nov 05, 2009
New article added. Jun 24, 2009
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