A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called on Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) to retract and apologize for what he called a “reckless allegation” that “appears to have been invented out of thin air.”
“Senator Durbin’s accusation is a serious one, and it appears to have been invented out of thin air,” Brendan Buck said in a statement. “The senator should disclose who told him this account of events, retract his reckless allegation immediately, and apologize.”
Durbin wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday that a House GOP leader said “I cannot even stand to look at you” to President Obama during a negotiations over the federal government shutdown.
The White House and House Republican leaders both denied the claim on Wednesday.
