John Boehner: Mother Teresa couldn’t help Congress right now

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House Speaker John Boehner says his Republican conference is having trouble coming up with a plan to avoid hitting the government’s fast-approaching debt limit, suggesting that even heavenly intervention wouldn’t help.

“We are still looking for the pieces to this puzzle,” the Ohio lawmaker told reporters Thursday during his weekly news conference. “But we do not want to default on our debt, and we’re not going to default on our debt.”

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