{"id":40507,"date":"2013-10-13T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_senate_takes_control_of_budget_talks\/"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:05:42","slug":"usa_today_senate_takes_control_of_budget_talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40507","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Senate takes control of budget talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&#8217;s top two leaders have asserted control over budget negotiations with the White House for a deal to reopen the federal government and avoid a default on the nation&#8217;s debt.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., met Saturday morning with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to begin preliminary discussions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that our talking is some solace to the American people and to the world,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;This should be seen as something very positive, even though we don&#8217;t have anything done yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/10\/12\/shutdown-house-boehner-senate-collins\/2971575\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&#8217;s top two leaders have asserted control over budget negotiations with the White House for a deal to reopen the federal government and avoid a default on the nation&#8217;s debt. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40507\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,149,168,617,616,151,667,618,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}