{"id":40551,"date":"2013-10-15T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_senate_leaders_are_in_striking_distance_of_a_deal\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:16:15","slug":"wsj_senate_leaders_are_in_striking_distance_of_a_deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40551","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Senate Leaders Are in Striking Distance of a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Senate leaders on Monday said they were within striking distance of a deal to sidestep a looming debt crisis and reopen the federal government two weeks after a partisan deadlock forced it to close.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen days after a partial government shutdown began, senators signaled a bipartisan resolution could come soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very optimistic we will reach an agreement that&#8217;s reasonable in nature this week to reopen the government, pay the nation&#8217;s bills and begin long-term negotiations to put our country on sound fiscal footing,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304561004579135521409535360\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Senate leaders on Monday said they were within striking distance of a deal to sidestep a looming debt crisis and reopen the federal government two weeks after a partisan deadlock forced it to close. Fourteen days after a partial<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40551\">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":[39,40,670,582,589,595,592,149,168,119,617,676,675,616,151,667,618,673,585,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicaid","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40551","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=40551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}