My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

org Power Ranking Boehner was the 6th most powerful congressman (preceded by Speaker Pelosi Majority Leader Hoyer Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. His parents slept on a pull-out couch. As Minority Leader Boehner served as an ex officio member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Boehner previously served as the House Minority Leader from 2007 until 2011 and House Majority Leader from 2006 until 2007. A member of the Republican Party he is the U. As Speaker of the House Boehner is second in line to the presidency of the United States following the Vice President in accordance with the Presidential Succession Act.