John Boehner: Superstorm Sandy

Boehner Dept: WASHINGTON - The first order of business for a new Congress on Friday was a scheduled vote on national flood insurance legislation to help victims of Superstorm Sandy, a contentious issue for House Republicans and Speaker John Boehner, whose colleagues a day earlier only narrowly re-elected him to the job, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Boehner barely retained his powerful position as the new Congress opened for business, despite a mini-revolt in his own party over the "fiscal cliff" deal and the bruising fight over the legislation for victims of Superstorm Sandy, which battered New York and New Jersey communities in October and house Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. passes the gavel to House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/Susan Walsh The 113th Congress welcomed dozens of new members Thursday to long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and crisis-driven era of divided government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.