From USA TODAY:
…House Republican leaders wrote Obama to suggest areas of potential agreement, ranging from changes in highway spending and construction permitting to new ways of helping the long-term unemployed
At the same time, Senate Democratic leaders said they would move ahead with changes that would make it easier for entrepreneurs to get patents and extend highway spending through next January.
The initial efforts at compromise indicated that lawmakers heard a message from constituents in August: Quit bickering and work together…
Click here to read the full article.
EDITOR: The article fails to address the key question: Will the Republicans allow this additional spending without insisting on cuts elsewhere, thus adding to the national debt? If not, one offsets the other and nothing is likely to be gained.
