Cutting Room Floor: The Longest Yard - Roll Call

Cutting Room Floor: The Longest Yard

By Roll Call Staff

Posted July 22, 2011 at 3:18pm

A scene from the football-themed movie “The Longest Yard” plays on a television during the weekly news conference of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday. Boehner’s press conference centered on another game of inches — the ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling.

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