Earl henry boehner pronunciation

John Boehner (pronounced “BAY-ner”), a staunchly pro-business conservative, has spent 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, rising to the top of the Republican Party leadership by making himself useful to those above him in the hierarchy and helping those below him. While promoting financial and procedural reform within the House, he has cultivated the friendship of corporate leaders and lobbyists in several industries, particularly companies in the fields of steel production, tobacco, financial services and insurance. During the run-up to the 2010 election, he was the number one fundraiser for the Republican Party, bringing in tens of millions of dollars.

Boehner has been unabashed in supporting controversial positions, such as extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. He also was a vocal opponent of Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan that was adopted in 2009 and the Democrats’ failed attempt to create a government-run health care program.

Born on November 17, 1949, in Reading, Ohio, Boehner grew up in a German-Irish family of 12 children, along with his mother Mary Anne and his father Earl Henry Boehner. The second oldest in the family, he shared one bathroom with all of his siblings in a two-bedroom house i

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