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"Blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us," Rep. John Boehner said. Ref. USAToday

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Boehner to establish committee to investigate Benghazi

Speaker John Boehner will schedule a vote to create a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack. Boehner says the Obama administration misled the American people after the deadly attack in 2012. And he says emails released this week show that it withheld documents from congressional investigators. Ref. USAToday

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John Boehner re-elected U.S. House speaker

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, was re-elected to a third term as U.S. House speaker on Tuesday. Boehner faced resistance from a group of conservatives seeking to oust him from the office, but they failed to muster enough support to force a second ballot. Boehner and newly minted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will lead the first GOP-controlled Congress since 2006. Ref. USAToday

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Speaker John Boehner to resign from Congress

Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will give up his House seat at the end of October, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Ref. USAToday

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An emotional House Speaker John Boehner says he decided to resign from Congress to avoid a divisive leadership battle.

"It's become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution," Boehner said in his first public remarks since he decided to resign. He will leave Congress at the end of October.

At a separate news conference, President Barack Obama said he phoned Boehner after learning of his impending resignation.

"We have obviously had a lot of disagreements," Obama said, but he praised Boehner as "A good man" And "A patriot." Ref. CNN

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Ex-Speaker John Boehner says Donald Trump 'abused' his loyalists by lying to them in extraordinary rebuke of the GOP. Boehner, one of the Republican party's most senior figures, felt “disgust” over the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol. "What struck me, especially after the election, was, here's all these people loyal to Donald Trump and he abused them,” Boehner said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY. “He stepped all over their loyalty to him by continuing to say things that just weren't true." Source 3a.