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Boehner: Debt limit should ‘bring fiscal sanity’ to D.C.

By Joel Gehrke
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Boehner: Debt limit should ‘bring fiscal sanity’ to D.C.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he will not give President Obama the power to raise the debt ceiling, indicating further that he plans to use the debt ceiling to demand that Democrats agree to spending cuts.

“Congress is never going to give up our ability to control the purse,” Boehner said. “The fact is that the debt limit ought to be used to bring fiscal sanity to Washington D.C.”

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