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Republican senators emerged from a meeting at the White House on Friday afternoon expressing confidence that a deal could be reached in a matter of days that would end the government shutdown and extend the nations borrowing authority, but cautioning that details of an agreement, including the length of an extension, still needed to be worked out.
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Significantly, the president signaled that he could be flexible in reaching a deal, said Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. He said he was open to the idea of giving Republicans something on their policy wish list, Ms. Murkowski said, if they in turn agreed to give Democrats something but only on the condition that the government reopens and the debt ceiling is raised.
He said space for trading,' Ms. Murkowski said. So apparently we are not talking about negotiation, were talking about some trading space.
After the White House meeting, Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, continued work on a proposal they hope could get bipartisan support in the Senate. The plan, according to an aide with knowledge of the discussions, would extend the nations borrowing limit through the end of January and include a stopgap spending measure at sequestration levels that would reopen the government and finance it through the end of March. Government agencies would have flexibility on how to handle the across-the-board spending cuts.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/us/politics/budget-and-debt-limit-debate.html
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Oh, hell! No!
I need to hear these alleged "trades" on the table addressed by the president. I don't believe a word any Republican spews to media whores after a closed-door meeting.
January? March? And then we start this shit over again?
Hell, no!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)-Raising taxes on the wealthy.
-Hiking the dividend tax and capital gains tax.
-A large infrastructure spending/jobs bill
etc.....
Instead of listening to their demands, how about some demands of our own? Then negations can begin....
Lifelong Dem
(344 posts)They are in a corner. They just saw polls drop like a rock for them over this. Can you imagine what they are thinking if we go into default and people don't get their Social Security checks? Yet they are the ones making demands?