--- --- # Nancy Pelosi Tweets Birthday Zinger to John Boehner  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Nov 17, 2014 5:32 PM UTC  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Nov 17, 2014 5:32 PM UTC House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wished Republican Speaker John Boehner a happy 65th birthday over Twitter on Monday, in a message that compresses an age-old debate on spending priorities into less than 140 characters. > [](https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/534355186337476609) Nancy Pelosi Tweets Birthday Zinger to John Boehner ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3589470/nancy-pelosi-birthday-john-boehner/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3589470/nancy-pelosi-birthday-john-boehner/"},"headline":"Nancy Pelosi Tweets Birthday Zinger to John Boehner","datePublished":"2014-11-17T17:32:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:28:58.797Z","description":"In honor of his 65th","url":"https://time.com/3589470/nancy-pelosi-birthday-john-boehner/","keywords":["Congress","John Boehner","nancy pelosi"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3589470/nancy-pelosi-birthday-john-boehner/","name":"Nancy Pelosi Tweets Birthday Zinger to John Boehner"}}]}] ```