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Boehner Still Blocking Unemployment Extension

By Matt Fuller and JM Rieger

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Speaker John A. Boehner doesn’t seem to think the Senate passing an unemployment benefits extension has changed the political calculus for the House. Boehner said Thursday morning that he had made it clear to the president in December that an unemployment insurance extension would “have to be paid for and would have to include things that would help get our economy moving.

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