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BREAKING: Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker

AmericanObserver Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 3:49 PM

The issue is not what programs I think the conservatives should cut but what programs the CONSERVATIVES would cut. It is like 'tax loopholes.' They keep talking about them all day but then never specify. In terms of programs, they invariably refer to DOE and the EPA, but the discussion peters out quickly after that. WorldCop, below, suggest foreign aid...now there is a start. What else. YOU tell me.

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BREAKING: Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker

Remember all of this? Just a bump in the road, it seems. With relatively little drama, Ohio Republican John A. Boehner has been re-elected as Speaker of the US House of Representatives:

The 113th Congress is now in session. The gavels have been dropped in both the House and Senate. So, work on the People's Business has begun. The first bit of news was election of the speaker in the House., and at 1:20 p.m. ET the incumbent — Rep. John Boehner of Ohio — had enough votes to keep that post. Democrats, with...

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