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Overheard: Boehner Gives It Back to Obama

“I’d rather be heckled than ignored. Or, as I like to say, you only tease the ones you love.”

Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, responding on CNN’s “The Lead With Jake Tapper” to the president’s quip about Congress while in Israel.

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