Honorable John A. Boehner
United States Representative, Ohio, Republican
Representative Boehner, of the Eighth District of Ohio, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. He served on the Union Township (Ohio) Board of Trustees from 1981 to 1985, as President of the Board in 1984, and in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He is Chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce and serves as Vice Chairman of the Agriculture Committee. The following is from the October 2, 2003, House floor debate on an amendment to H.R. 2660, the 2004 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, to…