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at the white house for the third time to discuss the debt ceiling. this comes a little more than a week away from the treasury secretary's so-called hard deadline for default. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. we are expected to hear something each side following this meeting which has happened after every other meeting. it is speaker mccarthy's first solo meeting with the president, after talks fell apart last week and both sides exchanged barbed over the weekend. >> treasury secreta...

Make our economy stronger. take care of this debt but, more importantly, get this government moving again, to curb inflation, make us less dependent upon china and make our appropriation system work when we get done, right? >> i'm all for making appropriations work. [laughter] being. >> mr. president, is overall spending the way to resolve this to agree on that kind of number? >> not [inaudible] >> thank you. >> bret: there you see the president of the united states meeting with the speaker of the house in the oval office. saying that they both agree that there should not, cannot be a default,...

In addition to bills described in our last post, the General Assembly’s Education Committee approved and advanced out of committee the following funding-related and “omnibus” bills, including bills reaffirming the Committee’s affinity for “task forces” and “studies.”  Here is a summary of these bills (which now await action by the full General Assembly):   CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS H.B. No. 6617 (“ An Act Concerning Authorization Of State Grant Commitments For School Building Projects And Revisions To The School Building Projects Statutes”) would authorize state grant comm...

Budget even sequestration in place. mr. president get real and get to the table and cut spinding. -- spending. >> congressman, thank you very much it is it a pleasure to visit with you. i appreciate you on the show today. >> very much. reporter: the president could have fixed it he could have proposed the specific things he thought we could have cut. things like the robotic squirils which most of us gray we could have done without. republicans were not willing to give him cart blac question and there is it questions about the president making appropriations. the president could have made propo...

Budget even sequestration in place. mr. president get real and get to the table and cut spinding. -- spending. >> congressman, thank you very much it is it a pleasure to visit with you. i appreciate you on the show today. >> very much. reporter: the president could have fixed it he could have proposed the specific things he thought we could have cut. things like the robotic squirils which most of us gray we could have done without. republicans were not willing to give him cart blac question and there is it questions about the president making appropriations. the president could have made propo...