“Different Political Planets” Collide: Disagreements Abound On First Day of Budget Meetings In Congress

Time: On the first day they met, they agreed to meet again.

At the end of the first Senate and House budget conference since 2009, that was pretty much the only tangible that could be taken away. The committee, which was formed at the end of the last government shutdown in hopes of preventing the next, has been tasked with recommending a compromise that would set a new budget for the coming year. The 29 conferees will next gather in public on November 13, a month before the conference is to report its recommendations to Congress.

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