Conservative groups bash John Boehner over clean debt limit bill

Published February 11, 2014 5:00am ET



House Speaker John Boehner’s decision Tuesday to hold a vote on a “clean” bill to raise the nation’s borrowing limit is his latest brush with influential conservative groups.

Heritage Action called the Ohio Republican’s decision “reckless,” the Club for Growth said it thought the bill was a joke, while the Tea Party Patriots said the move was “complete capitulation” to Democrats.

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