mandate a balanced budget mandate like many states. so these are important steps before it gets out of the senate. what harry reid is trying to do is to get ahead of this and some of the momentum that john boehner and the team is getting and saying it is dead. we got it from the white house as well. as kristen mentioned, there are many variations of procedurally what can be done and i won t go through that, but what needs to happen with that deadline looming is what options are left. we are hearing possibilities of additional conversations between the leaders here, but at the moment, it is going to make sense for those to let it play out first in the house, and see where it is and what the senate does, because pressure will be brought the bear on the senate democrats as well and see what can be done in the limited time left. this is a time when you need your handbook next to you watching all of this to see what the hurdles are, but a big one today for john boehner and his
mandate like many states. so these are important steps before it gets out of the senate. what harry reid is trying to do is to get ahead of this and some of the momentum that john boehner and the team is getting and saying it is dead. we got it from the white house as well. as kristen mentioned, there are many variations of procedurally what can be done and i won t go through that, but what needs to happen with that deadline looming is what options are left. we are hearing possibilities of additional conversations between the leaders here, but at the moment, it is going to make sense for those to let it play out first in the house, and see where it is and what the senate does, because pressure will be brought the bear on the senate democrats as well and see what can be done in the limited time left. this is a time when you need your handbook next to you watching all of this to see what the hurdles are, but a big one today for john boehner and his lead