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Who Won? Boehner

BY RICH GALEN

Reprinted from mullings.com

Last week it was all “Boehner Embarrassed,” “Boehner Loses Control,” “Boehner Speakership in Peril,” and so on.

That was last week. So … what was. Yesterday was a new week, a new vote, a new deal and the House adopted the bill to raise the debt limit and cut just shy of a trillion dollars in spending by a vote of 269-161.

174 Republicans voted for the bill; 66 voted against. Democrats split 95-95. Three Democrats didn’t vote.

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