{"id":22280,"date":"2015-09-26T05:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2015-09-25T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T02:30:11","slug":"speaker-boehner-will-resign-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/09\/speaker-boehner-will-resign-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Boehner will resign–from Congress!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

House Speaker John Boehner, who has been facing opposition and ouster attempts from many of his fellow Republican, is resigning at the end of October.\u00a0 Not only from his powerful leadership position, but from Congress!<\/p>\n

Might this help Republicans, who have a majority in both houses,\u00a0 be more effective?\u00a0 Or will it herald still more chaos in the party?<\/p>\n

From John Boehner Will Resign From Congress \u2013 The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, will resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up his House seat at the end of October, throwing Congress into chaos as it tries to avert a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1990, made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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The Ohio representative struggled from almost the moment he took the speaker\u2019s gavel in 2011 to manage the challenges of divided government and to hold together his fractious and increasingly conservative Republican members.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Mr. Boehner, 65, was trying to craft a solution to keep the government open through the rest of the year, but was under pressure from a growing base of conservatives who told him that they would not vote for a bill that did not defund Planned Parenthood. Several of those members were on a path to remove Mr. Boehner as speaker, though their ability to do so was far from certain.It will be up to the majority of the members of the House now to choose a new leader, and the leading candidate is Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader who is widely viewed more favorably by the more conservative members.<\/p>\n

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