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Boehner Hammers Obama Administration Over Benghazi, IRS

By Matt Fuller
Posted October 16, 2015 at 4:57pm

By Matt Fuller and JM Rieger

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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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