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“Why didn’t they offer a plan that met the speaker’s requirements — fiscally responsible, with something to create jobs — or any plan, for that matter, before they left for the holidays?” asked Michael Steel, a spokesman for John A. Boehner of Ohio, the speaker of the House.

Why didn't the Speaker preempt them by offering one of his own?

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“Why didn’t the Speaker preempt them by offering one of his own?”

Because Boehner was too busy railing at conservatives and caving to the Democrats.