Boehner: Fully Supports Ryan Plan

The Hill reports:

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he "fully support[s]" the proposals in Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) 2012 budget, including its reforms to Medicare.

The GOP Speaker sought to quickly squelch any doubt that there was daylight between him and Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee whose 2012 budget is set for a vote in the House later this week.

"I fully support Paul Ryan's budget, including his efforts on Medicare," Boehner said in a press event on Capitol Hill.  ...

"I think Paul Ryan has set the bar in terms of the kind of targets that we need to meet and the kind of serious effort that is required given the debts that we have," Boehner said more broadly of his budget chief's plan.