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Boehner, Cantor urge Obama to force votes on spending cuts

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In a closed door meeting at the White House today, House Republican leaders urged President Obama to use his authority to force votes on numerous spending cuts.

Under a 1974 law, the president can submit a “recission” order on already appropriate funds. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pledged that their party would supply the 88 votes necessary to force a floor vote on any specific recission order that president submits.

Obama has proposed a three-year freeze on domestic discretionary spending, but Boehner and Cantor urged Obama to use his recissions authority to go farther.

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