Boehner - Dangerous path Oct-234599. 8, 2013
AUSTIN (KXAN) - House Speaker John Boehner addresses the media after it was reported he will ask House GOP for short-term debt ceiling increase. Check below for minute to minute updates on his speech, starting at 10:00 a.m.:
10:15 a.m. - News conference has not begun.
10:25 a.m.: Offer legislation that will offer a temporary increase in the debt ceiling to allow us some time.
10:26 a.m.: The president is fond of saying no one gets everything they want in a negotiation... but over the course of the last ten days our Democratic colleagues don't want to talk, the President doesn't want to talk.
10:27 a.m.: It's time for leadership, it's time for this conversation to begin, I will hope the President will look at this as an opportunity to meet half way to what he's demanded in order to have these conversations begin.
10:28 a.m.: We've seen for 10 days a government shutdown. It's not what we asked for, it was a result of the two parties not being able to sit down and talk.
10:29 a.m.: Presidents who have governed in divided governments before have all sat down and talked to the other side, it's about time this happened.
10:30 a.m.: We could end up back in the same place and we don't want to be there. The President wants to deal with America's pressing problems as much as we do.
10:31 a.m.: End of news conference.
AUSTIN (KXAN) - House Speaker John Boehner addresses the media after it was reported he will ask House GOP for short-term debt ceiling increase. Check below for minute to minute updates on his speech, starting at 10:00 a.m.:
10:15 a.m. - News conference has not begun.
10:25 a.m.: Offer legislation that will offer a temporary increase in the debt ceiling to allow us some time.
10:26 a.m.: The president is fond of saying no one gets everything they want in a negotiation... but over the course of the last ten days our Democratic colleagues don't want to talk, the President doesn't want to talk.
10:27 a.m.: It's time for leadership, it's time for this conversation to begin, I will hope the President will look at this as an opportunity to meet half way to what he's demanded in order to have these conversations begin.
10:28 a.m.: We've seen for 10 days a government shutdown. It's not what we asked for, it was a result of the two parties not being able to sit down and talk.
10:29 a.m.: Presidents who have governed in divided governments before have all sat down and talked to the other side, it's about time this happened.
10:30 a.m.: We could end up back in the same place and we don't want to be there. The President wants to deal with America's pressing problems as much as we do.
10:31 a.m.: End of news conference.