not a completely unprecedented position for the minority party to say the party in charge should vote by themselves but unprecedented to say that the minority will filibuster the attempt to do that. democrats in the minority made republicans raise the debt limit on their own but didn t filler buster and that s what chuck schumer, the democratic leader is demanding now. the party leaders have what we believe is a tentative agreement to do a short term extension, a short term increase i should say in the debt limit through december. that would defer a catastrophic economic calamity on the doomsday the treasury set but details are being worked out. the devil is in the details and if things go well, it would be announced as early as tonight. my colleague garrett haake says a holdup here is they need technical details from the treasury department how much money the government will need to stay open until december and there are other fine print letters if two parties agree,