In response to President Obama’s remarks in Maryland today, House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) urged the president and Senate Democrats to “come to the negotiating table.”
“Republicans have sent bill after bill after bill to the Senate to keep the government open, and Democrats have rejected every one of them — refusing to even talk about our differences,” Boehner said in a statement. ”We want to resolve this dispute as soon as possible, but that will require Washington Democrats to realize neither side gets everything it wants.”
The speaker also reiterated the GOP’s demand for a delay of the individual mandate in Obamacare. “With Obamacare proving to be a train wreck, the president’s insistence on steamrolling ahead with this flawed program is irresponsible,” he said. ”We must provide American families basic fairness and the same exemptions from the law that big businesses have already been granted. It’s time for the president and Senate Democrats to come to the negotiating table and drop their my-way-or-the-highway approach that gave us this shutdown.”






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