Summers On Boehner’s ‘Punk Staffers’ Comment: Bankers Standing Up For Themselves Is Not The Problem | Talking Points Memo

White House Economic Counsel Director Larry Summers fired back at House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) remark about “little punk staffers,” saying that “we in the administration do not believe that the prominent issue is allowing bankers to stand up for themselves.”Earlier this week, Boehner told a crowd of bankers that they shouldn’t let “those little punk staffers take advantage of you, and stand up for yourselves.”


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