what are the areas of compromise you think the dmitri carats will be willing to work with the republicans on regarding the budget? well, what s really key is senator mikulski who s the tom dem and i have been working very closely together. remember, the reason the democrats couldn t vote for the continuing resolution, it reaffirmed the sequester, which means a major cut. it only updated defense and the military construction bill to reality. and the other ten bills were left from two years ago. so if barbara mikulski works with me and the senator and we work across the aisle, i think we have a great chance of bipartisan support in the house, and then it will go to the president. speaking of the president, there was, of course, this big dinner last week in washington, d.c. president obama sat down with