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Speaker of the House John Boehner delivered the following remarks at the Annual John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio on June 11.

As most of you know, ‘tonight’ was originally supposed to happen a couple of months ago.

We had to reschedule because I had to be in Washington for the final negotiations on the bill to keep the government running and finish last year’s budget.

I was supposed to be with all of you that Friday night. Instead I spent the day on the phone with President Obama, trying to squeeze another billion dollars in spending cuts out of the most powerful man in the world... a very reluctant one, I might add.

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