Yarmuth on Boehner's Economic Policies

Posted: Mon 11:27 PM, Oct 31, 2011

In national politics, House Speaker John Boehner spoke at the University of Louisville today.

After the speech, Louisville Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth said that despite Boehner's call for political compromise on economic issues, the GOP refuses to back down on policy.

Boehner was speaking as part of the fall lecture series at the university's McConnell Center for Political Science Students.

Yarmuth is one of only two Democrats in the Kentucky Congressional Delegation.

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