Boehner: Neither Side Close To Debt Limit Agreement

By Philip Bunnell

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday that no further progress between Republicans and Democrats on raising the nation’s debt limit had been made in the past 24 hours.

“We are not close to an agreement,” Boehner said to reporters after a meeting between GOP lawmakers.

Boehner said that “the House has done its job,” referring to the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act,” which passed earlier in the week along party lines.

The Senate, however, voted 51-46 this morning to “table” the measure, effectively killing any hope the GOP may have had about sending the bill to President Obama’s desk.

Boehner, who described himself as a “happy warrior for Cut, Cap, & Balance,” and other House Republicans were quick to point the finger at Democrats in the upper chamber. 

“What has the Senate done?” asked House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). “The House is done,” declared Candice Miller (R-Mich.).

Boehner is scheduled to go to the White House today for yet another round of talks with President Obama and other Congressional leaders.