The top Republican in the House, Speaker John Boehner, on Tuesday threw his support behind President Obama‘s call for military action against Syria.

Emerging from a meeting at the White House with Obama and a group of lawmakers, Boehner, R-Ohio, said he plans to back Obama’s plan for “limited” strikes aimed at degrading Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons but not forcing regime change.

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