Many of Seattle's most influential business and community organizations have formed a coalition calling on Mayor Bruce Harrell and the Seattle City Council to adopt more ambitious growth goals and increase housing density more thoroughly and more equitably across the city. Co-chaired by leadership of Futurewise and the Housing Development Consortium, the Complete…
the halls of congress to the white house. let s get over to phil mattingly on capitol hill first. phil, what s happening right now? reporter: they re trying to get that vote in a good place, kate, but i ll tell you what, they re not actually working well towards that direction. at the moment right now there has been a vote on the house floor on the rule to get to the debate on the bill. that s pro forma. leadership gets an opportunity to whip their members, get a sense of whether last night s dramatic ultimatum by budget director mick mulvaney had an impact. leading into the vote i was told they felt the conservatives were softening, not necessarily flooding into the yes column but they felt there was at least opportunity to get there. they re trying to figure out right now how real that opportunity is. there are major, major warning signs on the other side of the ideological spectrum in the republican conference. this has always been the case. a lot of sources told me, keep a close