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House historian says public move by Boehner to tell #Obama to change date is unprecedented. Negotiations usually happen behind closed doors

Based on that this must clearly be unprecedented as well — publicly threatening to use Senate procedural maneuvers to block a Joint Session of Crongress:

politico.com

Sen. Jim DeMint vowed Wednesday to try to block President Barack Obama from addressing a joint session of Congress on the same day as a Republican presidential debate next week.

Obama could learn something from the GOP, DeMint reasoned, in adding his voice — and his vote — to a growing chorus of Republican objections.

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“If he has a jobs proposal, put it in writing, give us a cost estimate, and send it over. I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter. If he insists on playing politics by picking the night of the GOP debate, I will object to the session.”