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Photo: On this day in 2015

By Bill Clark

Posted September 24, 2020 at 2:30pm

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Speaker John A. Boehner speaks with Pope Francis in the Capitol on Sept. 24, 2015, before the pontiff’s address to a joint meeting of Congress. The following morning at his weekly news conference, the Ohio Republican announced he would be resigning the next month.

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