Short Lived Vacation: Pelosi Reconvenes House For Vote

Congressmen will have to postpone vacationing and campaigning for a few more days.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi confirmed through a Tweet that she would reconvene the House Monday and Tuesday of next week to vote on a package to provide $26 billion in aid to states’ Medicaid and education programs.

The bill made it through the Senate Wednesday with 61 Senators voting for the legislation.

By Robert Hune-Kalter - Talk Radio News Service



Speaker Boehner?

Politico is reporting today that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is positioning himself to be the face of the GOP ahead of this fall’s midterm elections. Boehner, along with help from the NRCC, recently launched a “Boehner for Speaker” fundraising committee. Of course, his party will have to win back the majority in the House in November in order for Boehner to wrestle the gavel from current Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).