Playing nice: Budget talks may start with an extra-friendly tone
Posted on AllSides October 19th, 2013
From The Left
Catch your breath. And get ready for another fight. The next fiscal faceoff in Congress is likely to start in just over a week.
That's when the group of nearly 30 lawmakers charged with working out a budget plan for the government plans to hold its first meeting, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, told CNN after he and three other top congressional budget leaders sat down Thursday morning. Sessions is the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
The group, known as a budget conference committee, is kicking into...