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Boehner Hammers Obama Administration Over Benghazi, IRS

By Matt Fuller and JM Rieger
Posted April 10, 2014 at 2:08pm

During his weekly press conference, which lasted for just more than 6 minutes, Boehner criticized former IRS official Lois Lerner, knocked Democrats for playing politics rather than working with Republicans to create jobs, and, most notably and vociferously, knocked the Obama administration for putting up roadblocks to answers on Benghazi, Operation Fast and Furious and the IRS scandal.

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