John
Boehner Official Portrait
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Posted
by Speaker Boehner Press Office
February 26, 2013
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WASHINGTON,
DC - At a press conference with Republican leaders
today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called on the president to stop using
the military as a campaign prop to demand more tax hikes and start working with
his own Democratic-controlled Senate to act on a credible plan to avert his
sequester. Following are Speaker Boehner’s remarks:
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“You know,
Republicans have voted twice to replace the sequester. The president, as
you’re all aware, insisted that he not have to deal with the debt ceiling twice
and insisted that the backstop for the work of the super committee be the
sequester.
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“But I
don’t think the president’s focused on trying to find a solution to the
sequester. The president has been traveling all over the country and
today going down to Newport News in order to use our military men and women as
a prop in yet another campaign rally to support his tax hikes.
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“Now the
American people know if the president gets more money they’re just going to
spend it. The fact is that he’s gotten his tax hikes. It’s
time to focus on the real problem here in Washington and that is spending.
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“The
president has known for 16 months that the sequester was looming out there when
the super committee failed to come to an agreement. And so for 16 months
the president’s been traveling all over the country holding rallies instead of
sitting down with Senate leaders in order to try to forge an agreement over
there in order to move a bill. We have moved a bill in the House twice,
we should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and
begins to do something.”
Posted by Speaker Boehner Press Office
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The
Huffington Post had this
report today and it goes in part like this… "The president has known for 16
months that this sequester was looming out there when the super committee
failed to come to an agreement," Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill.
"And so for 16 months, the president has been traveling all over the
country holding rallies instead of sitting down with Senate leaders in order to
try to forge an agreement over there in order to move a bill… "We have moved a bill in the House twice. We should not
have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do
something," Boehner added…
Read the story/watch
the video at link below…
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Personally, I think they ALL need to get off
their asses!
AubreyJ………
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