"You can't say,'We're going to do less because those numbers are pessimistic.' You say,'We have to do what we do in light of those numbers.'" House minority leader John Boehner repeated his assertion that President Obama has largely ignored Republican proposals on the budget and economy.

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"Well it seems to me if we train officers to do a particular thing and put them into situations where that training is required and then we see pictures of them doing what they have been trained to do, we cannot simply wash our hands of it at that point and say how awful it is,right?" "We have to share some of that responsibility.

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