capital today. the meeting comes as the white house and congress try to work out an agreement for funding the government for the rest of this fiscal year. however, a discussion on spending is apparently not on the menu, since it is st. patrick's day. and technically a friends of ireland luncheon. meanwhile, at a job creation forum yesterday, boehner insisted that cutting spending will support private sector job creation. >> the government is in the way of job creators in america. and as someone who understands what uncertainty does to small employers, obviously more regulations, higher tax creates more uncertainty. when you look at our efforts as the new majority here in the congress, our number one goal is to create an environment, assist in creating an environment where employers can begin to hire again. and what i need to do in order to do that, i think we need to stop the spending binge here in