Boehner: "So be it. We're broke." The $450 million engine nobody wanted

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2011. Speaker John Boehner on federal workers who could lose their jobs: "And if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We're broke."

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Four days earlier, Roll Call reported that Boehner was backing an alternate engine for the F-35 fighter jet. It came from General Electric and Rolls-Royce, it sat in H.R. 1, and it cost $450 million.

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In 1935, the NLRA gave workers the right to organize.

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All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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Alternate. Meaning EXTRA. An extra engine for the same fighter.

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The customer said cancel the order. He said: ship it anyway.

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The Speaker himself? Not on the roll. He didn't vote.

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In 1935, the NLRA gave workers the right to organize.

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