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Driver. she was on a delayed flight in michigan is captured by our own jeff zeleny. if the deal is passed it will eliminate the budget caps put into place in 2011 and suspend the debt ceiling all the way until july 1st, 2021. in total, the agreement locks in a $1.3 trillion budget which includes 320 billion in new spending over the course of new year's. the offsets ended up totaling 77 billion, half of what the white house had requested. keeping the lights and the ac on remains a problem after days of hot, stormy weather. in new jersey monday's thunderstorms killed the power to more than 300...

Back in march the house agreed overwhelmingly with 316 votes on a bill that would have funded amtrak at the same number $1.4 billion. it was a bipartisan bill. within that bill the northeast corridor the profits made would have gone back directly into the northeast corridor so you could have put that safety system in that area where it happened. you can redo the track in that area if you wanted to. what ended up happening is because of the budget caps put in place by the sequester dating back to 2011 they weren't able to find offsets back from march so they were trying to slash the 250 million...

Weekend. harry reid is going a step further ending sequester cuts. republicans say that is not going anywhere. could this unravel now. senator bob corker with me from the hill. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: i saw you a bit earlier. you said we'll have a deal by the end of the day today. are you still going with that? >> i said i hope we have a deal. as you just mentioned, bills the problem is over the last 48 hours, democrats unbelievably have been wanting to break the budget caps put in place in 2011. i think you know this is the first time since 1955 and 6 we had two year...