Obama calls Pelosi amid debt talks
Source: The Hill
President Obama called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday as lawmakers are attempting to reach a deal to avert a default on the U.S. debt, the White House said.
Obama and Pelosi “discussed the way forward on the pressing fiscal matters facing Congress today,” the White House said.
The Democratic leaders agreed on the necessity of a “clean” bill to hike the U.S. debt limit, which the Treasury Department has said the federal government will reach on Thursday, according to a White House statement about the call.
“This afternoon the president spoke with Leader Pelosi over the phone,” the White House said. “The President and Leader Pelosi discussed the way forward on the pressing fiscal matters facing Congress today. They reinforced that there must be a clean debt limit increase that allows us to pay the bills we have incurred and avoid default, and that the House needs to pass the clean continuing resolution to open up the government and end the shutdown that is hurting middle class families and businesses across the country.”
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I remember when Pelosi was the Speaker, the media would give Boehner hours of face time on the media, but now they generally ignore House Democrats.
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...which allows the right to frame the narrative for current events.
