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Boehner will resign from Congress

<p>House Speaker John Boehner is reportedly resigning from his position in Congress at the end of October.&nbsp;</p><p>That comes first from The New York Times,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/boehner-will-resign-from-congress.html?smid=tw-bna" target="_blank">which broke the news</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>Boehner&#39;s faced an uphill battle in controlling the GOP in Congress.&nbsp;</p><p>His inability to stop the Iran deal from going through or to defund Planned Parenthood created sweeping discontent among his own party.</p><p><i>This video includes images from Getty Images.</i></p>
Posted at 1:20 PM, Sep 25, 2015
and last updated 2015-09-25 13:20:24-04

Speaker John Boehner will resign from Congress and give up his House seat at the end of October.

According to the New York Times, 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.

Rep. John Mica said Friday that Boehner "just does not want to become the issue. Some people have tried to make him the issue both in Congress and outside."

Boehner, who represents Ohio's Eighth Congressional District, took over the speakership in January 2011.

He was first elected to U.S. Congress in 1990 and was re-elected for his 13th term last November.

The second oldest of 12 brothers and sisters, he grew up mopping floors and waiting tables at his family tavern, Andy’s Cafe, in Cincinnati.

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