Biden, Congressional Leaders To Meet In Spending Summit

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Top Democrats and Republicans from both sides of Capitol Hill will meet with Vice President Joe Biden Thursday afternoon for the first in a series of discussions about how to fund the federal government through September.

In attendance will be House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The White House extended the invitation to the leaders Wednesday, but it wasn’t clear until this morning whether Republicans would accept it — publicly, Boehner and McConnell had called on Reid to proffer the Democrats’ spending plan before the GOP would begin negotiations in earnest.

Thursday’s meeting is scheduled to occur in Biden’s ceremonial Senate office.

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