U.S. House Speaker Boehner calls on a reporter during a news conference in WashingtonVia Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Monday opposed a bill to ban place of job discrimination in accordance with sexual orientation and gender id, dimming the chances of the White Home-backed measure changing into law. “The speaker believes this law will raise frivolous litigation and price American jobs, especially small industry jobs,” Boehner’s spokesman Michael Metal mentioned in a statement. Metal issued the commentary at about the identical time that the bill’s backers within the Senate gave the impression to have gathered sufficient strengthen to clear a Republican procedural roadblock. Dean Heller of Nevada changed into the fifth Senate Republican to announce strengthen for the bill.