House Minority Leader John Boehner doesn’t want to be lumped in with Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who in a hearing today apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward for the $20 billion escrow fund that, in Barton’s words, amounts to a “shakedown” and a “slush fund.”
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