Boehner: No ‘Clean’ Votes on Reopening Government or Debt Ceiling Without Negotiations with Presiden

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9. Of course, no one brings up Boehner's stance in January 2013 that he's done negotiating.

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Today, on the Sunday news, Boehner has been telling everyone who will listen that all he wants to do is negotiate with President Obama, that Obama has his number, and that the shutdown is due President Obama's refusal to negotiate. Not surprisingly, no one asked Boehner about his stance back in January that he was through negotiating with the President. I guess that would undermine the Republican talking point that Democrats are the ones refusing to negotiate.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/275295-boehner-tells-gop-hes-done-with-one-on-one-obama-talks

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: he’s telling Republicans he is done with private, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama.

During both 2011 and 2012, the Speaker spent weeks shuttling between the Capitol and the White House for meetings with the president in hope of striking a grand bargain on the deficit.

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In closed-door meetings since leaving the “fiscal cliff” talks two weeks ago, lawmakers and aides say the Speaker has indicated he is abandoning that approach for good and will return fully to the normal legislative process in 2013 — seeking to pass bills through the House that can then be adopted, amended or reconciled by the Senate.

"He is recommitting himself and the House to what we've done, which is working through regular order and letting the House work its will,” an aide to the Speaker told The Hill.