his legislation, he must have the support of speaker boehner. recently, speaker boehner played that critical role when he gained house republican support for the current 2011 federal budget. that governors u.s. spending for fiscal year october 1 of last year, 2010, through september 30 of this year, 2011. this budget averted a shutdown of the federal government. the successful passage of the fy2011 budget was a major feather they re in the boehner cap. i m pleased that senator reid and i and the white house have been able to come to an agreement that will in fact cut government open. question, the last time the republicans took over the house was in 1994, 17 years ago, when bill clinton was president. if you compare house speaker john boehner to then former house speaker newt gingrich, how well is boehner doing? i ask you, major garrett. this lots of ways to measure that. one is the polling data. for 12 polls for newt gingrich s he s negatives were always higher than hi