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Behind John Boehner’s Bluster as He Shifts Blame for the Sequester

SEQUESTER FAILURE

The House Speaker is punching back, but Eleanor Clift says he’s really admitting defeat on the sequester.

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Frustrated that House Republicans are seen in surveys as the main obstacle to resolving the stalemate over sequester, Speaker John Boehner used some unusually blunt language Tuesday morning to lay the problem at the Senate door.

“We have moved the bill in the House twice,” he said Tuesday morning as President...

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