Boehner Says Democrats Reneged
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON House Minority Leader John Boehner complained Sunday that Democrats backed out of a promise to allow an immediate wide- ranging debate on Iraq.
On Thursday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Republicans would be permitted to propose an alternative this week to the Democrats’ resolution. But on Sunday, Hoyer said that is “not necessarily our plan.”
“Live up to your word,” Boehner, R-Ohio, told Hoyer. Democrats, Boehner said, “won’t even let us have a substitute. … Give us a vote this week.”
Asked if he thought House Republicans would lose a third of their members to the Democrats’ resolution, Boehner said he didn’t think “we’ll lose that many.”
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