Through the years | Speaker of the House John A. Boehner

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner attend a memorial service for former Speaker of the House Tom Foley in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. 29, 2013.

Speaker of the House John Boehner leaves after holding a news conference at the Republican National Committee offices on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where Boehner refused to answer questions about former Speaker Newt Gingrich in 2011.

House Minority Leader John Boehner walks away from the podium as reporters shout questions about the healthcare vote in March 2010.

House Republican Leader John Boehner speaks while surounded by House Republicans in 2008 after walking out of the U.S. Capitol in protest of the decision by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring up a vote on contempt charges against former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten.

During a visit to Hamilton High School in Ohio in 2002, 9-year-old Tez Taylor asks President George W. Bush a question during a bill-signing ceremony of the “No Child Left Behind” Act, an education reform bill passed by overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress. Standing on stage behind the president, from left, are are Rep. George Miller (D-Ohio), Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Secretary of Education Rodney Paige, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio).