clayton: this is a very important weekend morning. president obama urging compromise in the weekly radio address. congressional democrats and republicans continue to squabble over a plan to avoid default. and now live in washington with the latest. the senate will go back to work at 1:00 o clock p.m. if a deal is made in time our they wering is it will be today. if there is a compromise in the senate, for procedural reasons the harry reid would kill his own debt bill and bring back the boehner bill to the floor. he will use that as a vehicle to scrape together as much republican support as possible. and harry reid is expected to gut that boehner bill, but senior aides tell fox they think the fact he is considering the boehner bill means they will like the terms of the compromise he will offer and senator kyl
clayton: this is a very important weekend morning. president obama urging compromise in the weekly radio address. congressional democrats and republicans continue to squabble over a plan to avoid default. and now live in washington with the latest. the senate will go back to work at 1:00 o clock p.m. if a deal is made in time our they wering is it will be today. if there is a compromise in the senate, for procedural reasons the harry reid would kill his own debt bill and bring back the boehner bill to the floor. he will use that as a vehicle to scrape together as much republican support as possible. and harry reid is expected to gut that boehner bill, but senior aides tell fox they think the fact he is considering the boehner bill means they will
the night, the house voted on speaker boehner s investigation of the bill and he got 218 votes to pass it because they added the balanced budget amendment inside of that, which would force the u.s. constitution to be rewritten and add an amendment to balance the budget and the senate says that is dead on arrival because to amend the constitution takes a long time, well beyond the tuesday deadline. the question we have been hearing is, where is the president s plan? where is the democrats plan? where are the democrats? i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. and in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. a lot of people in this town can never say yes. it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table! tell us where you are!
clayton: what happened last night around dinner and later in the night, the house voted on speaker boehner s investigation of the bill and he got 218 votes to pass it because they added the balanced budget amendment inside of that, which would force the u.s. constitution to be rewritten and add an amendment to balance the budget and the senate says that is dead on arrival because to amend the constitution takes a long time, well beyond the tuesday deadline. the question we have been hearing is, where is the president s plan? where is the democrats plan? where are the democrats? i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. and in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. a lot of people in this town can never say yes. it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put
experience. someone suggested we have a 50-vote threshhold on a matter of this magnitude in the united states senate i m perplexed, mr. president. genuinely perplexed if my friend the majority leader does not want to vet on his proposal as soon as possible. interestingly, reid said he is considering the mcconnell plan saying obviously i am focusing on my plan but willing to talk about that, the mcconnell plan that gives obama the authority to raise the debt ceiling. clayton: harry reid went to mcconnell said what do you need to make this pass? it is part of the mcconnell plan that gives the president unlimited authority to raise the debt ceiling. the fact we have a simple majority vote up or down was laughable. dave: our entire economy waiting in the balance and he want as simple majority vet on