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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:42 PM Mar 2015

Boehner Takes On Conservatives



Over the next week, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) plans “to jam two big-ticket items through the House — a show of strength for a leadership team stung by a string a defeats and facing doubts about whether it even can govern,” Politico reports.

“First, to get a budget approved, the Republican leaders intend to employ a parliamentary maneuver to boost defense spending by $20 billion without any corresponding spending cuts. They’re betting the move will help break a stalemate between fiscal hardliners and defense hawks. Within days of that, the GOP leaders will try to pass a permanent fix to the ‘Sustainable Growth Rate,’ a formula by which the federal government reimburses doctors who serve Medicare patients.”

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Boehner Takes On Conservatives (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
I often think Boehner might be different if he did not have so many assholes in the House. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #1
Winner winner chichen dinner, Wellstone ruled Mar 2015 #2
It's become our #1 product, death and mutilation! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Winner winner chichen dinner,
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:53 PM
Mar 2015

payback to the Military Industrial Complex. Yup,keep them checks and cash coming,got your back.

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