Reporters are used to getting e-mails from the White House which are often titled, "Readout of the President's call" with a world leader or some important figure related to a major news story. So it was something different to get one of those from Speaker John Boehner's office.
And it was something different to see that it was about a phone call between the Speaker and the President.
While the White House said nothing official about the call, the Speaker's office obviously decided it wanted to push back against President Obama's assertion at a Thursday news conference that he had not seen any job plans from Republicans in Congress, part of his attack line that the GOP isn't serious about doing anything on jobs, and is just frustrating his own efforts.
Here is the Speaker's release - like I said - not a normal kind of thing to get in your inbox.
Reporters are used to getting e-mails from the White House which are often titled, "Readout of the President's call" with a world leader or some important figure related to a major news story. So it was something different to get one of those from Speaker John Boehner's office. And it ...
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