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WATCH: Boehner says Senate needs to "get off their..." and do something

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Updated: 2/26 12:40 pm

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STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker John Boehner is using salty language to prod the Senate to act on legislation to replace automatic spending cuts known as the sequester.

Boehner complained at a news conference Tuesday that the House has twice passed bills that would replace the across-the-board cuts with more targeted reductions, while the Senate has not acted.

Senate Democrats have unveiled a package that would replace the sequester with a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. The Senate could act on a bill later this week, though it is unlikely to pass because Republicans oppose the tax hikes.

A frustrated Boehner told reporters, quote, "We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something."

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AFretired2002 - 2/26/2013 6:34 PM
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by the way freehole did you feel the same way when your LIEberal friends were calling bush a war criminal and wanted him sent to geneva to face the world court?

TeaAm - 2/26/2013 6:22 PM
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'Get off their ass', a bumper sticker in the making...mmm Well said Boehner, now go after this 'dictator' of a president and 'impeach' him. I'm a proud Hispanic female and sick of BO's so-called concern for 'illegal aliens', how about defending the law-abiding conservative Hispanics that are actually working, A..hole

AFretired2002 - 2/26/2013 5:29 PM
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traitor ('tre?t?) — n a person who is guilty of treason or treachery, in betraying friends, country, a cause or trust, etc Tell me this doesn't fit our fearless leader

AFretired2002 - 2/26/2013 3:50 PM
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let's see, releasing non-citizen criminals in to local communities and conferring upon them rights of Americans and abusing his power to the point of a dictator. Seems to me the choice is simple and I have not said anything that would get me in trouble except to people who feel the government is above the reach of the governed (LIEberals). He may be the president of the United States of America but in no way is he my president since I never swore allegiance to him or any other human being. I swore allegiance to the flag and to the republic and to support and defend the constitution which he is trashing. also when did we ever take their oil? lies and the liars who tell them.

FreeHole - 2/26/2013 2:56 PM
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"Retired-from-service-11-years-ago"...I have to admit you are a valiant man. Demanding the arrest of your president and calling him traitor could get you into hot water, but it seems you don't care. You don't understand that any person being the president at this moment would have to let go the low risk immigrants because that's what the congress is sugesting. The problem is the severe economic times we are living, and if you remember, the national finances started to go downward say...after September 11, 2001? The sitting president at that time needed to go crush Afhganistan and Irak, take their oil and other resources and inject them onto the America economy. But what he did do? Nothing. A somehow luke-warm war which nobody won, but many American died...he gave billionaire contracts to oil companies that took advantage of the situation while the US took the slide down the drain. And as a coincidence, his family is googol-rich because of....oil interests! So the nation got to the brink of bankruptcy while he, his family and his cronnies made fabulous fortunes. Who is more traitor then?

AFretired2002 - 2/26/2013 1:37 PM
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and the house has pass over 40 bills regarding the economy while hairy reed sits on his brains and does nothing with them

AFretired2002 - 2/26/2013 1:33 PM
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obama is using the mess he created as an excuse to release thousands of illegal aliens from detention in to the local communities, anyone need further proof this was his plan all along. He is a TRAITOR and should be arrested and tried as such.

Jimkata - 2/26/2013 12:59 PM
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Like he's innocent in this whole matter...
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