Boehner visits Boise; vows to succeed with entitlement reform this fall

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Idaho States Man: Boehner visits Boise; vows to succeed with entitlement reform this fall

Published: August 26, 2013 Updated 2 hours ago

 

The House speaker predicts ‘a whale of a fight’ but he says the timing is right.

By DAN POPKEY — dpopkey@idahostatesman.com

 

House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that getting the GOP-controlled House to agree to raising the U.S. debt ceiling will only come with a bipartisan deal to make cost-saving changes to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, farm programs and government pensions.

Before becoming speaker in 2011, Boehner said, he’d watched leaders of both parties delay a long-term solution to a baby-boom-fueled benefit crisis.

“I made up my mind that we weren’t going to kick the can down the road any more,” Boehner, R-Ohio, told a Boise lunch crowd

 

 

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[articleshotarticle=http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/08/26/2726580/popkey-boehner-visits-boise-still.html]Idaho States Man:

 

 

Boehner visits Boise; vows to succeed with entitlement reform this fall

 

 

 

 

 

And the problem is......?