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There's supposedly meetings between the white house and senate and big game players later this beak. in erms the of a deal we're getting a real date, not necessarily august 2nd, but july 22nd. why? there's a ten-day period needed for the congressional budget office to score any type of compromise as well as you're going to have to sell this compromise to the members. house republicans have been steadfast they don't want any tax increases to consider any type of compromise. speaker boehner needs some time to sell that to his members. >> you're talking about political high ground. you're not tal...

Gives the president to consult congress about military action have come and gone. today, house speaker john boehner libya resolution passed by a vote of 268 to 145. it requires the president to answer within the next two weeks. some tough questions about the military ongoing air war over libya. and bars ground troops being introduce in the libya conflict, despite nato indications that may be needed. democratic congressman dennis kucinich introduced his own resolution which ultimately failed. it would have required the president to end the libyan operation in 15 days. >> our loyalty to nato and...

President does not need congress' blessing. the president did send is a letter to congressional leaders yesterday saying he supports libya resolution being drawn up by massachusetts democratic senator john kerry and arizona republican senator john mccain and others apparently voicing support for the mission. the president urged lawmakers to get behind that measure, saying, quote, it would demonstrate a unity of purpose among the political branches on this important national security matter. it has always been my view that it's better to take military action even in limited action such as this ...

Happened in afghanistan and iraq, americans and especially commentators are gun shy and going into this assuming things will go bad just as we went into previous wars assuming they would go good because of how well things went during "desert storm." obama could come out looking very good. by the way, there was also a price of doing nothing. if obama failed to act, and gadhafi slaughtered his people -- >> that gets us to the bigger conversation which is whatever libya resolution is, we have now risk alienated israel in the way we dealt with mubarak and risk alienating saudi arabia in the way we...

Organization. we're going to have a lot more, including tim pawlenty's new tv ad. in a week, the senate takes its first vote this afternoon on libya. it's something nobody wants to talk about. after 15 weeks of bombing, there's no end to the stalemate. signs of friction within the nato coalition. how this vote goes, what happens today, what amendments get on there over the week? this could actually be the newsier topic of the week more so than the debt deadline, but we're going to go to the deadline. it's on everybody's mind. as we know, the first order of business is going to be the procedu...