House Of Representatives Speaker John Boehner: Obama

Minimum Wage Dept: As Obama hit the road to drum up support for his plans to hike the minimum wage, revive manufacturing and his other State of the Union proposals, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that he was skeptical of many of Obama's ideas, according to Montreal Gazette. The speaker also said he would not commit to passing a pathway to citizenship for America's 11 million illegal immigrants, though he said doing so would be "somewhat helpful" to members of his party as they seek to regain support among Hispanics, who voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in the November elections. "There's no magic potion that's going to solve our party's woes with Hispanics," he said and wASHINGTON - The top Republican in Congress says he opposes much of the ambitious second-term agenda laid out by President Barack Obama in the annual State of the Union address to Congress. Boehner expressed his doubts for the president's call for taxpayer-funded help for pre-school education for all 4-year-olds, and refused to swing behind any of Obama's gun-control proposals. He said he opposed the president's plan to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.