{Political_Views} News from The Hill: Obama goes round two with Boehner, this time on highway bill

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News from The Hill: Obama goes round two with Boehner, this time on highway bill By Amie Parnes President Obama on Monday slammed Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the House Republican leadership for the second time in a week. Obama's latest attack on Boehner is over construction projects, which the president says have been blocked by Republicans who have refused to take up a long-term highway bill approved in a bipartisan vote by the Senate. The president said the stalled legislation is keeping millions of workers jobless, and is preventing necessary projects forward across the country, including in Boehner's own district. "There are bridges between Kentucky and Ohio where some of the key Republican leadership come from, where folks are having to do detours an extra hour and half drive every day on their commute because these bridges don't work," Obama said in a speech to the Building and Construction Trades Department Legislative Conference in Washington. "Time after time, the Republicans have gotten together and they've said no," he said. Read the story here. For all the latest news: Visit TheHill.com Follow @TheHill on Twitter Like The Hill on Facebook Connect with The Hill on Google+

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