US Republican Leader Invites Netanyahu for Congressional Speech

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner announced late Tuesday that he had invited Israel's prime minister to address Congress next month — and he did so without consulting the White House first, setting up a potential confrontation with President Barack Obama. Boehner's announcement, made shortly after the pagentry of Obama's State of the Union address, is in line with a Republican call for tougher U.S. economic sanctions on Iran as the U.S. and other world powers try to negotiate a...

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