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the end of next year, beyond the election, with cuts and spending caps also on the table, house speaker john boehner wants all house members to weigh in. so he plans to hold a conference call with many of them sometime today. so we've got up to the minute coverage of what's happening in washington. cnn's kate bolduan is on capitol hill. dan lothian is at the white house. first to you, kate, senate leaders in both parties keep saying that they are, quote, very close to a deal. what more do we know? >> reporter: we don't have specifics of a final deal quite yet because as far as we kno...

bipartisan plan would increase the debt limit through the end of next year, beyond the election. cuts and spending caps are still on the table. and house speaker john boehner apparently is planning a conference call sometime soon with house members. so we have up to the minute coverage of what's happening in washington. cnn's kate bolduan is on capitol hill. dan lothian at the white house. let's begin with you, kate. senate leaders in both parties say they are, quote, very close to a deal. we know they are still negotiating. what have you been able to find out about? what is in this ...

Caucus. >> correct. they cling on to this power. she has also said you have to sacrifice your careers, you moderate democrats for the sake of passing health care. again, she is in it to just, as an -- someone who believes in a liberal an yen like obama obama came in with the idea of changing washington that is not happening. >> sean: i thought the president came off as extraordinarily arrogant when confronted by john mccain. john mccain said if the bill is so good why did you have to bit off nelson with the cornhusker kickback? landrieu with the louisiana purchase. the president those are talk...

Caucus. >> correct. they cling on to this power. she has also said you have to sacrifice your careers, you moderate democrats for the sake of passing health care. again, she is in it to just, as an -- someone who believes in a liberal an yen like obama obama came in with the idea of changing washington that is not happening. >> sean: i thought the president came off as extraordinarily arrogant when confronted by john mccain. john mccain said if the bill is so good why did you have to bit off nelson with the cornhusker kickback? landrieu with the louisiana purchase. the president those are talk...

>> well, sure, a lot of people do say that and that's one of the reasons you're seeing such a shift in the polls and one of the reasons barack obama as a candidate campaigned on changing washington and certainly he said all the time i never said it would be easy. what's also important to note, it's not like state legislatures are the sunshiny, happy places of nonpartisanship. a lot more does get done in the states in some cases than congress, but certainly there's plenty of partisanship to go around and anybody that runs for political office will end up decrying partisanship and say let's all ...