Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“The President is trying to make it tough on members of Congress. It’s just silly. I want to know who is being laid off at the White House.”
— Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), in an interview on CNBC, on the decision to shut down White House tours due to the sequester.
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