Boehner Planning For Future, Says He Would Run House Differently

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters Thursday that if Republicans won the House back in November and if he became Speaker, he would run the House differently than any Democrat or Republican has in the past.

The GOP Leader said that one of his first initiatives would be to invoke transparency legislation that would provide members of Congress and the American people the time they would need to read bills before reaching the floor of the House.

“[This] would give the American people a chance to have their way,” Boehner said. “I think we need to have ‘Read The Bill’ reform, and we need to have it now.”

Optimistically looking into the future, Boehner said that “if we were fortunate enough to be in the majority and if I were fortunate enough to be the Speaker of the House, I’d run the House differently.”

“Read The Bill” reform is legislation that Boehner said would require bills to be displayed online for a three-day review period and “is the first plank of a transparency initiative” Republicans have been pushing for since late 2009.

Boehner said that the Obama administration only believes that they can achieve change by passing giant bills with language that is only fully read on rare occasions.

“For 18 months, we’ve had a government that believes that change is only possible by passing 2,000 page, trillion dollar monstrosities one after another,” Boehner said.