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House Republican leaders actually left the Capitol on Wednesday, walking a block to Republican National Committee headquarters, expressly to weigh in on the elections. Speaker John Boehner told reporters that Obama's criticism of Romney's business career and refusal to disclose more tax returns are a distraction from the administration's stewardship of the wobbly economy. "The American people are asking, `Where are the jobs?'" Boehner said. "They're not asking where the hell the tax returns are." Obama's questions about when, exactly, Romney left Bain Capital amount to an "attack on the private sector," Boehner said, and show that Obama "doesn't give a damn about middle-class Americans who are out there looking for work." The House's official business Wednesday also seemed designed to put the president on the spot. With an overwhelming 414-2 vote, Republicans pushed to passage a bill requiring Obama to lay out in full detail how he would implement nearly $1 billion in spending cuts next year
-- half of them in Pentagon accounts -- agreed to last summer during the debt ceiling debate. Republicans are trying to use the issue against Obama, maintaining that any right-thinking commander in chief wouldn't undermine the military with deep defense cuts. Republicans as well as Democrats backed the legislation that called for $487 billion in defense cuts over 10 years, plus the automatic cuts of about $492 billion in projected spending if a bipartisan congressional committee failed to come up with $1.2 trillion in savings. The panel was unsuccessful. Wednesday's efforts from the GOP-controlled House came about a week after a bill to repeal Obama's signature health care legislation was rushed to the House floor for a vote. It passed on a largely party-line vote, but with full knowledge that the Democratic-controlled Senate isn't likely to even look at it.
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