Boehner is New Speaker (Pelosi Out)

John Boehner

Washington Times - Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, marking the return of the chamber to GOP control for the first time in four years. Since late in the 2010 campaign, Mr. Boehner has promised that if Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, he would shake up the way the chamber works. On Wednesday he told his colleagues that the House makeover, GOP-style, is beginning. "We will dispense with the conventional wisdom that bigger bills are always better; that fast legislating is good legislating; that allowing additional amendments and open debate makes the legislative process 'less efficient' than our forefathers intended," Mr. Boehner said in a speech after he officially was elected speaker. The election puts Mr. Boehner in the line of presidential succession, just behind the vice president, and instantly makes him the most powerful Republican in Washington, at a time when partisanship is running high — or what he called "a great deal of scar tissue" that he said "has built up on both sides of the aisle." Read full story here:

Boehner is New Speaker (Pelosi Out)