President Obama announced today that he has invited Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Speaker-to-be John Boehner (R-OH) to meet with him at the White House on November 18, in the first week of the lame duck session.
“I want us to talk substantively,” Obama said. “The immediate focus is what we need to get done during the lame duck session.”