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Congress.gov biography: "BOEHNER, John Andrew, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, November 17, 1949; graduated from Moeller High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1968; B.S., Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977; United States Navy, 1968; businessman; business executive; Union Township, Ohio, board of trustees, 1981 and president, 1984; member of the Ohio state house of representatives, 1985-1990; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Second and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-present); House Republican Conference Chairman, 1995-1999; chair, Committee on Education and the Workforce (One Hundred Seventh through One Hundred Ninth Congresses); majority leader (One Hundred Ninth Congress); minority leader (One Hundred Tenth Congress)."

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20080131

Jack Abramoff - John A Boehner - John T Doolittle - Legal - Politics - Ohio - California - Georgia - Utah - Colorado - Indiana - California - Texas - "Fellow Republicans Help Doolittle Pay Legal Bills Stemming From Abramoff Ties." ... "A House Republican under Justice Department investigation because of ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff has garnered help with his legal bills from a handful of colleagues, including [Ohio Republican Representative] Minority Leader John A. Boehner." ... "[California Republican Representative] Rep. John T. Doolittle, R-Calif., reported in a filing made available Thursday that his legal expense fund had received $5,000 from Boehner’s leadership PAC. The money was part of $36,500 kicked in by GOP colleagues to Doolittle’s legal defense between June 27, when he opened the fund, and year’s end." ... "Other Republican lawmakers who contributed money from their campaign funds or leadership committees included [Republican Senator] Sens. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, [Republican Senator] Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and [Republican Senator] Wayne Allard of Colorado, and Reps. [Republican Representative] Dan Burton of Indiana, [Republican Representative] Wally Herger of California, [Republican Representative] Jack Kingston of Georgia, [Republican Representative] Sam Johnson of Texas, and [California Republican Representative] Howard P. “Buck” McKeon and [Republican Representative] Dana Rohrabacher of California." -By Kathleen Hunter -CQPolitics.com

20070810

Pete Hoekstra - John Boehner - United States - World - Intelligence - Secrets - Politics - Media - Mich - Ohio - "Are GOP Leaders Leaking State Secrets?" ... "For the second time in as many weeks, a senior House Republican may have divulged classified information in the media." ... "In an opinion article published in the New York Post Thursday, [Michigan Republican Representative] Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., reported the top-secret budget for human spying had decreased -- the type of detail normally kept under wraps for national security reasons." ... ""The 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill cut human-intelligence programs," Hoekstra wrote in the piece, in which he also criticized "leaks to the news media."" ... "Formerly the chairman of the intelligence committee, Hoekstra is now its highest ranking Republican." ... "Secrets are apparently hard to keep these days. On July 31, House Minority Leader [Ohio Republiacan Representative] John Boehner, R-Ohio, allegedly disclosed a secret court ruling during a television interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto." ... ""There's been a ruling, over the last four or five months, that prohibits the ability of our intelligence services and our counterintelligence people from listening in to two terrorists in other parts of the world where the communication could come through the United States," Boehner said." ... "Government officials have since confirmed to reporters that Boehner was discussing classified information, although the GOP leader denies it." -By Justin Rood -ABCNEWS.com

20070803

Secret - US - World - Intelligence - E-Mail - Communications - Spying - Government - Law - Politics - John A Boehner - Ohio - Illinois - California - New York - "Ruling Limited Spying Efforts: Move to Amend FISA Sparked by Judge's Decision." ... "A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the [Republican President] Bush administration's wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president's spying powers." ... "House Minority Leader [Ohio Republican Representative] John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) disclosed elements of the court's decision in remarks Tuesday to Fox News as he was promoting the administration-backed wiretapping legislation. Boehner has denied revealing classified information, but two government officials privy to the details confirmed that his remarks concerned classified information." ... "The judge, whose name could not be learned, concluded early this year that the government had overstepped its authority in attempting to broadly surveil communications between two locations overseas that are passed through routing stations in the United States, according to two other government sources familiar with the decision." ... "The practical effect has been to block the NSA's [National Security Agency's] efforts to collect information from a large volume of foreign calls and e-mails that passes through U.S. communications nodes clustered around New York and California." ... ""There's been a ruling, over the last four or five months, that prohibits the ability of our intelligence services and our counterintelligence people from listening in to two terrorists in other parts of the world where the communication could come through the United States," Boehner told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto in a Tuesday interview." ... "Commenting on Boehner's remarks, [Illinois Democratic Representative] Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the House Democratic Caucus chairman, said yesterday that "John should remember the old adage: Loose lips very much sink ships."" (1, 2) -By Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima with contributions by Dan Eggen, Barton Gellman, and Paul Kane -WashingtonPost

20070725

Childrens - Health - Finance - Politics - Ohio - John A Boehner - "G.O.P. Leaders Fight Expansion of Children’s Health Insurance." ... "Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Tuesday attacked proposals that call for a major expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, to be financed with higher tobacco taxes." ... "“Republicans will fight these proposals,” said the House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio." ... "House Democrats announced their proposals on Tuesday night and estimated that they would provide coverage for five million children who are now uninsured. The Senate bill is expected to cover 3.2 million children." -By Robert Pear -NYTimes

20070306

Hastings - Ed Cassidy - Boehner - Ohio - California - Washington - 2004 Election - US Attorneys - Law - "Hearing on U.S. attorney's ouster reveals Hastings' office contacted McKay." ... "During the recount of the hotly contested 2004 governor's race in Washington state, the chief of staff to [Washington state Republican Representative] Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., called former U.S. Attorney John McKay to inquire about the status of any federal investigations into voter fraud, McKay told a Senate committee today." ... "McKay told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Ed Cassidy, who now works for [Ohio Republican Representative] Republican Minority Leader John Boehner, called him "some weeks" following the 2004 election, and after a third re-count had determined that Democrat Christine Gregoire had narrowly defeated Republican Dino Rossi." ... ""I was told the purpose of the call was to inquire on behalf of congressman Hastings" about the status of ongoing investigations of voter fraud, McKay said in response to a question from [California Democratic Senator] Sen. Dianne Feinstein." ... "McKay said that he informed Cassidy that the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington had already asked the public to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation with any evidence of voter fraud, so it could be investigated." ... "Cassidy then began to ask McKay whether any future action would be taken by the U.S. Attorney's office with regard to the governor's race." ... ""When Mr. Cassidy called me on future action I stopped him and I told him I was sure that he wasn't asking me on behalf" of Congressman Hastings, McKay told the committee, "because we both knew that would be improper. [Cassidy] agreed it would be improper and he ended the conversation in a most expeditious manner."" -By David Bowermaster, Mike Carter and Alicia Mundy -SeattleTimes.NWsource

20061025

Hastert - Foley - Reynolds - Boehner - Illinois - Florida - New York - Ohio - "Hastert testifies in sex scandal investigation: Presses panel to move quickly." ... "Speaker J. Dennis Hastert [Illinois Republican] yesterday became the first leader of the House of Representatives in a decade to testify before its ethics committee, fielding hours of questions about what he knew about former [Florida Republican] representative Mark Foley's inappropriate approaches to teenage pages and when he knew it." ... "At least two Republican leaders -- Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, who is leading the party's House reelection effort, and House majority leader John Boehner of Ohio -- have said they told Hastert last year that they were concerned about Foley's behavior after they learned about "overly friendly" e-mails that Foley, a Florida Republican, sent to one former male page." ... "Hastert has said he does not recall those conversations, but he does not dispute that he may have forgotten them." -By Maura Reynolds -LAtimes via -BostonGlobe

20061024

Hastert - Foley - Fordham - Palmer - Kolbe - Alexander - Boehner - Reynolds - Shimkus - Trandahl - Florida - Illinois - Arizona - Louisiana - Ohio - New York - "House panel questions Hastert's top aide in Foley case." ... "Kirk Fordham, [Florida Republican Mark] Foley's former chief of staff, said he alerted [Illinois Republican Dennis Hastert's chief of staff Scott] Palmer several years ago to his concerns about Foley's friendships with pages." ... "Palmer has denied Fordham's account." ... "So far, these people have claimed they warned congressional leaders or their staff about Foley:" ... "• Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz. [Republican-Arizona], said he alerted Hastert's staff in 2000 or 2001." ... "• Fordham said he spoke with the speaker's office in 2002 or 2003." ... "• Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La. [Republican-Louisiana], said he alerted the speaker's office last year and spoke to House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio [Republican], and Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-N.Y. [Republican-New York], again this spring." ... "• Boehner and Reynolds said they brought up Alexander's complaints with Hastert. The speaker said he does not remember the conversation, but does not dispute that it occurred." ... "After Alexander contacted Hastert's office last year about e-mails that Foley had sent a Louisiana page, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill. [Republican-Illinois], head of the House Page Board, and former House clerk Jeff Trandahl confronted Foley, who promised to stop." -By Kathy Kiely -USATODAY

20061018

Alexander - Foley - Hastert - Boehner - Trandahl - Reynolds - Lawmakers - E-Mails - Child - Louisiana - Florida - Ill - Ohio - NY - "House Panel Probes Foley Page Scandal: Sponsor Of Louisiana Page Tells Ethics Panel Others Knew Of E-Mails Before He Did." ... "GOP Rep. Rodney Alexander [Louisiana Republican] appeared Wednesday morning and says that after he and his staff learned of the [Florida Republican Mark Foley] e-mails to the former page, his aides contacted the office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.[Republican-Illinois], for advice on what to do about communications the boy's family thought were inappropriate." ... "His testimony is a small piece of a more confusing puzzle that puts Hastert and his aides at odds with the accounts of other top GOP lawmakers and their aides." ... "Two of those figures, Majority Leader [Republican] John Boehner, R-Ohio, and former House Clerk Jeff Trandahl, are scheduled to testify Thursday." ... "Boehner has said he discussed the Foley situation with Hastert last spring after Alexander informed him of the e-mails, as has Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y. [Republican-New York.]" -AP via -CBSNews

20061007

Hastert - Foley - Shimkus - Boehner - Reynolds - Ill - Fla - Louisiana - Ohio - NY - "Staffer Cites Earlier Role by Hastert's Office: Confrontation With [Florida Republican] Foley Detailed." ... "House Speaker [Illinois Republican] J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before the speaker said aides in his office took any action, a current congressional staff member with personal knowledge of Foley and his behavior with pages said yesterday." ... "The staff member said Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, met with the Florida Republican at the Capitol to discuss complaints about Foley's behavior toward pages. The alleged meeting occurred long before Hastert says aides in his office dispatched Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill. [Republican-Illinois]) and the clerk of the House in November 2005 to confront Foley about troubling e-mails he had sent to a Louisiana boy." ... "The staff member's account buttresses the position of Foley's onetime chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, who said earlier this week that he had appealed to Palmer in 2003 or earlier to intervene, after Fordham's own efforts to stop Foley's behavior had failed. Fordham said Foley and Palmer, one of the most powerful figures in the House of Representatives, met within days to discuss the allegations." ... "Hastert maintains that he knew nothing of Foley's actions until last week, when the story first broke and Foley resigned. His stance contradicts that of House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), both of whom said they had informed Hastert this spring." ... "Palmer, who shares a townhouse with Hastert when they are in town, is more powerful than all but a few House members. Members know that he speaks for Hastert." (1, 2) -By Jonathan Weisman with contributions by Jim VandeHei, Charles Babington, Dan Eggen, and Allan Lengel -WashingtonPost

20061001

Reynolds - Hastert - Foley - Boehner - E-Mails - Louisiana - Teen - Noteworthy - Lawmakers - Enforcement - Secrets - 2006 Election - NY - Ill - Fla - Ohio - Mich - "GOP Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley: [New York Republican Thomas] Reynolds: Speaker Knew of E-Mails in Spring." ... "House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert ([Republican, Illnois] R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley ([Republican, Florida] R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week." ... "Hastert did not dispute the claims of Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), and his office confirmed that some of Hastert's top aides knew last year that Foley had been ordered to cease contact with the boy and to treat all pages respectfully." ... "Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, became the second senior House Republican to say that Hastert has known of Foley's contacts for months, prompting Democratic attacks about the GOP leadership's inaction. Foley abruptly resigned his seat Friday." ... "House Majority Leader John A. Boehner ([Republican] R-Ohio) told The Washington Post on Friday that he had learned in late spring of inappropriate e-mails Foley sent to the page, a boy from Louisiana, and that he promptly told Hastert, who appeared to know already of the concerns. Hours later, Boehner contacted The Post to say he could not be sure he had spoken with Hastert." ... "Yesterday's developments revealed a rift at the highest echelons of House Republican ranks a month before the Nov. 7 [2006] elections, and they threatened to expand the scandal to a full-blown party dilemma." ... "Republicans appeared to have kept the matter under wraps. Rep. Dale E. Kildee (Mich.), the only Democrat on the House Page Board, said yesterday: "I was never informed of the allegations about Mr. Foley's inappropriate communications with a House page, and I was never involved in any inquiry into this matter."" (1, 2) -By Jonathan Weisman and Charles Babington with contributions by R. Jeffrey Smith and Magda Jean-Louis -WashingtonPost
Secret - Children - Crime - Politics - Mark Foley - Florida - John Boehner - Ohio - Louisiana - New York - Illinois - Alabama - 2006 Election - "G.O.P. Aides Knew in Late ’05 of E-Mail." ... "Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between [Florida Republican] Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children’s issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday." ... "Among those who became aware earlier this year of the fall 2005 communications between Mr. Foley and the 16-year-old page, who worked for Representative Rodney Alexander, Republican of Louisiana, were [Ohio Republican] Representative John A. Boehner, the majority leader, and [New York Republican] Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Mr. Reynolds said in a statement Saturday that he had also personally raised the issue with Speaker J. Dennis Hastert [Illinois Republican]." ... "Democrats moved quickly to criticize Mr. Reynolds, who while overseeing House campaigns nationally is facing the potential of a serious [2006 Election] challenge from Jack Davis, a wealthy businessman who has vowed to spend at least $2 million of his own money in the contest. “Tom Reynolds had a moral obligation to protect our children,” said Curtis Ellis, a spokesman for Mr. Davis." ... "At the Justice Department, an official said that no investigation was under way but that the agency had “real interest” in examining the circumstances to see if any crimes were committed." ... "Several of Mr. Foley’s former colleagues demanded a criminal inquiry." ... "Representative Robert E. Cramer, an Alabama Democrat who was co-chairman with Mr. Foley of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, condemned Mr. Foley’s actions as “shocking and disturbing.”" ... "“Anyone, including Foley, involved in this type of behavior should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mr. Cramer said." (1, 2) -By Carl Hulse and Raymond Hernandez with contributions by Kate Zernike, David Johnston, and Abby Goodnough -NYTimes

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20060930

Mark Foley - Florida - John Boehner - Ohio - Ill - Calif - "Rep. Foley Quits In Page Scandal: Explicit Online Notes Sent to Boy, 16." ... "Six-term [Florida Republican] Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page." ... "The resignation rocked the Capitol, and especially Foley's GOP colleagues, as lawmakers were rushing to adjourn for at least six weeks. House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of some "contact" between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), and that Hastert assured him "we're taking care of it."" ... "It was not immediately clear what actions Hastert took. His spokesman had said earlier that the speaker did not know of the sexually charged online exchanges between Foley and the boy." ... "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took the House floor last night to demand an investigation into the Foley matter. But Boehner headed her off, calling on the House to refer the matter to the ethics committee, which the House promptly voted unanimously to do." (1, 2) -By Charles Babington and Jonathan Weisman with contributions by Lucy Shackelford and Zachary A. Goldfarb -WashingtonPost

20060929

Mark Foley - Florida - John Boehner - Ohio - NY - Ill - Mich - Calif - "Foley Interviewed About Page Last Year; Democrats Not Told: Ethics Inquiry Ordered." ... "[Florida Republican] Ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who resigned Friday after reports of his improper communications with a former male House page were made public, was interviewed about some of those contacts by the chairman of the House Page Board and the then-Clerk of the House last year." ... "At least four Republican House Members, one senior GOP aide and a former top officer of the House were aware of the allegations about Foley that prompted the initial reporting regarding his e-mail contacts with a 16-year-old House page. They include: Majority Leader [Ohio Republican] John Boehner (R-Ohio), National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman [New York Republican] Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) and Reps. [Louisiana Republican] Rodney Alexander (R-La.) and [Illinois Republican] John Shimkus (R-Ill.), as well as a senior aide to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and former Clerk of the House Jeff Trandahl." ... "[Michigan Democrat] Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.), who serves on the page board, was never told of the interview with Foley." ... ""I became aware of it this afternoon when [Shimkus] came by my office. I think we should have had a page meeting right away," Kildee said, referring to last year's discovery of Foley's e-mails." ... "When asked if was upset about being excluded, Kildee said yes, adding, "I've been on the page board for 20 years."" ... ""I'm the chairman of the page board," Shimkus said when asked why he didn't include Kildee. "The Clerk and I addressed this issue."" ... "House Minority Leader [California Democrat] Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who introduced a privileged resolution friday night to require an ethics probe, criticized Republican leaders, who she said, "have known of the egregious behavior of Congressman Mark Foley, yet were prepared to adjourn tonight without an Ethics Committee investigation."" ... ""The investigation must determine when Mr. Foley sent the inappropriate emails, who knew of them, whether there was a pattern of inappropriate activity by Mr. Foley with pages or former pages, when the Republican leadership was notified, and what corrective action was taken once officials learned of any improper activity," she added." -By John Bresnahan and Susan Davis -RollCall.com

20060812

US - British - Iraq - Global - Military - Intelligence - Airline - Terrorism - Religion - Politics - Election 2006 - John Boehner - Ohio - "Can Democrats make case Iraq diverted war on terror?" ... "The immediate domestic political impact of the latest airliner-bombing plot is to bolster Republican fortunes in the campaign leading to midterm elections on Nov. 7." ... "Terrorism has been the issue that has kept the Bush administration afloat since Sept. 11, 2001. The White House and its Republican allies should benefit at least momentarily from the traditional rallying effect that helps the party in power in the face of a national threat." ... "How long that moment lasts will be the supreme test for Democratic candidates in the coming days. For if Democrats now, with the revelation of the British-based plot, cannot make the case that the Bush administration has mishandled the fight against terrorism, they deserve whatever may befall them 12 weeks from Tuesday." ... "This will not be easy, given Republican possession of the White House and its bully pulpit and Republican willingness to demagogue the issue." ... "The British suspects were barely in handcuffs before House Majority Leader John Boehner was complaining about "Defeatocrats." Funny, but I don't recall it was Democrats who stood in the way of full implementation of the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission." ... "This isn't about whether you can pack hand cream in your carry-on bag. This is about how President Bush has squandered manpower and materiel in the war in Iraq, a conflict that has emboldened radical Islamists and made their cause more acceptable and recruiting much easier." ... "In his first public response to the arrest of suspects in Britain, Bush said that uncovering the plot was "a stark reminder that this nation is still at war with Islamic fascists."" ... "What Bush did not say was that the continuing war in Iraq has been a diversion from U.S. leadership in the global war on terrorism." -By Cragg Hines -HoustonChronicle.com

20060524

Political - Government - Police - Louisiana - John Boehner - Ohio - "F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House." ... "After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration's assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend." ... "Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday after a team of warrant-bearing agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned up at a closed House office building on Saturday evening, demanded entry to the office of a lawmaker and spent the night going through his files." ... "The episode prompted cries of constitutional foul from Republicans — even though the lawmaker in question, Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana, is a Democrat whose involvement in a bribery case has made him an obvious partisan political target." ... "[Republican] Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House majority leader, predicted that the separation-of-powers conflict would go to the Supreme Court. "I have to believe at the end of the day it is going to end up across the street," Mr. Boehner told reporters gathered in his conference room, which looks out on the Capitol plaza and the court building." ... "A court challenge would place all three branches of government in the fray over whether the obscure "speech and debate" clause of the Constitution, which offers some legal immunity for lawmakers in the conduct of their official duties, could be interpreted to prohibit a search by the executive branch on Congressional property." -By Carl Hulse -NYTimes

20060311

Jack Abramoff - Money - Law - California - Illinois - Ohio - "Push to Tighten Lobbying Rules Loses Strength." ... "The drive for a tighter lobbying law, just two months ago a major priority on Capitol Hill, is losing momentum, a victim of shifting political interests, infighting among House Republicans and a growing sense among lawmakers of both parties that wholesale change may not be needed after all." ... "In the House, Representative David Dreier of California, the Republicans' point man on lobbying legislation, said reaching consensus on what the bill should include had been more difficult than he had expected." ... "In January, shortly after the lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to corruption charges, Mr. Dreier and [Illinois Republican] Speaker J. Dennis Hastert called for tough restrictions, including a ban on gifts, meals and privately financed travel. They said their aim was to have legislation drafted by February. But the new majority leader, [Republican] Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, is not keen on the travel ban, and there is still no legislation." ... "The initial fervor for legislation was fueled by the Abramoff scandal, coupled with the resignation of Representative Randy Cunningham, Republican of California, after he pleaded guilty in another corruption case." (1, 2) -By Sheryl Gay Stolberg -NYTimes

20060110

Tom DeLay - Jack Abramoff - Money - Missouri - Ohio- "Blunt, Boehner Share Broad Network of Lobbyist Ties With DeLay." ... "Representatives Roy Blunt of Missouri and John Boehner of Ohio have been among the key intermediaries between Republican lawmakers and lobbyists since their party took control of the U.S. Congress in 1995." ... "Both [Blunt and DeLay] men's political action committees employ Jim Ellis, who was indicted along with DeLay. DeLay's PAC gave Blunt's committee a $150,000 donation in 2000, and Blunt's PAC gave $10,000 to DeLay's non-profit foundation that same year. Both lawmakers' PACs have employed Alexander Strategy Group, a Georgetown-based firm whose partners include former Abramoff and DeLay associates." ... "In 1995, Boehner handed out campaign checks from the tobacco industry to members on the House floor at a time when lawmakers were considering eliminating a tobacco subsidy." -By Laura Litvan -Bloomberg

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