House Speaker Backs Obama on Military Action in Syria

John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Photo by EPA

John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has endorsed President Barack Obama’s call for military action in Syria.

Boehner said following a meeting at the White House that he intended to support Obama’s plan for limited strikes against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria.

"I am going to support the president's call for action,” he said, as cited by NBC News.
"I believe my colleagues should support this call for action."

Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican, quickly joined Boehner to say he also backed Obama.

Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. summoned Boehner and other Republican and Democratic leaders to the White House on Tuesday as they intensified their push for Congressional approval of an attack on Syria.

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