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Caught Red Handed

by Josh Marshall
10.01.13 | 8:40 am

So Boehner secretly fought to hold on to hold on to health care subsidies for congressional staff. As it happens, it makes sense that he would since what’s being proposed puts burdens on congressional staff that no one else in the country is forced to face. But telling since he’s now making doing the opposite a condition of reopening the government.

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