Dana Bash, Manu Raju, Deirdre Walsh and Jeremy Diamond, CNN , Author at New York Amsterdam News

House Speaker John Boehner said he decided Friday, September 25, 2015 morning that he was going to announce his plans to resign from Congress. "I decided today is the day I'm going to do this, simple as that," Boehner said at a Capitol Hill press conference, saying his decision came after a night of sleep and prayers. (163787)

House Speaker John Boehner: ‘I decided today is the day’

by Dana Bash, Manu Raju, Deirdre Walsh and Jeremy Diamond, CNN September 25, 2015October 20, 2021

John Boehner, the Ohio Republican who steered his party to an overwhelming House majority in 2010, said in a news conference Friday afternoon he had decided only that morning to announce his plans to resign from Congress.