Boehner opens door to cutting U.S. oil tax breaks

7:48pm EDT
By JoAnne Allen

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress should "take a look" at multibillion-dollar subsidies to oil companies amid rising concern over skyrocketing gas prices, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Monday.

"It's certainly something we should be looking at," Boehner said in an ABC News interview. "We're in a time when the federal government's short on revenues. They ought to be paying their fair share."

"Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and frankly, they've got some part of this to blame," he said.

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