Divine Intervention? House Speaker Boehner Resigns From Congress

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Divine Intervention? House Speaker Boehner Resigns From Congress


Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2015 09:37 -0400









      
It appears the combination of another debt limit fight and government shutdown tearing his party apart along with the final arrival of a pope (after 3 tries), aides have reported that...

• *BOEHNER TO RESIGN FROM CONGRESS, GIVE UP HOUSE SEAT IN OCT: NYT
  

This surely makes government shutdown more likely and, perhaps more importantly, with Yellen blaming Congress for not hiking, this just raises the level of uncertainty.
As The NY Times reports,

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 Speaker John A. Boehner will resign from Congress and give up his House seat at the end of October, according to aides in his office.

Mr. Boehner was under extreme pressure from the right wing of his conference over whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood in a bill to keep the government open.