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By Tracey Webb
Your daily scoop of what State of the Union is watching today, April 25, 2014
1. Boehner: GOPers are crybabies. House Speaker John Boehner is mocking his fellow House Republicans on immigration reform. Boehner says GOP lawmakers "will take the path of least resistance" when it comes to controversial issue. "Here's the attitude: 'Ohhhh, don't make me do this. Ohhhh, this is too hard'," an animated Boehner told a Middletown Rotary Club meeting in his hometown of Cincinnati. Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck later tried to soften the speaker's comments saying "As the speaker often says to his colleagues, 'You only tease the ones you love.'" The Senate passed comprehensive immigration legislation last July that has since languished in the House. We'll talk about whether Boehner's remarks jeopardizes his speakership with our political panel Sunday on State of the Union.