Asked about Congress’s historic lack of productivity in recent years, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Thursday that he “reject[s] the premise” of the question.
“Listen. We made clear when we took over that we weren’t going to be doing commemorative legislation on the floor, that [we’d make] a lot of changes,” he told reporters. “In addition to that, most Americans think we have too many laws. And what they want us to do is to repeal more of them.”
“We’ve got a big job to do here. We need to stay focused on those things that are most important to the American people.”
