It’s good that Boehner will be meeting the leader of the free world. It’s unfortunate that Obama won’t be.
He might meet Netanyahu but Bibi will have to enter and leave through the back door.
This is not a total departure from precedent. Winston Churchill’s December 26, 1941 address to a joint session of the US Congress was shortly after the US entry into the Second World War, and was the assurance that the US Congress, at least, was fully on the side of the Allies.