Washington: John Boehner

When objecting to President Obama’s economic stimulus package recently, House Republican leader John Boehner was crafty to use a word guaranteed to cause Republicans to recoil in horror, “contraceptives.”
How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives – how does that stimulate the economy?
What Boehner was really saying was: How could a dutiful Republican, snicker, support legislation that has the remotest connection with, dare I say the word…sex?

Well, for one thing, the section of the stimulus bill that Boehner is referring to is about health care, not sex. The measure, stricken from the bill the following week, would have made it easier for states to fund family planning services such as, Pap smears, breast exams and HIV testing, under Medicaid, therefore lowering state’s health services costs.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Seattle) legal woes may be over, but his finances may have cause for concern. The AP is reporting that McDermott has paid former Rep. Boehner in full for the long-running lawsuit Boehner recently won against McDermott for violation of privacy relating to a phone call Seatte's Congressman leaked to the media in 1996.