Moderates move to break shutdown logjam

[WingNot]

If the Turtle is holding talks that can't be good. 

Moderate senators from both parties plan to meet Sunday to try to hash out a compromise to reopen the government, while hundreds of thousands of federal employees wait to find out whether they will go to work Monday.

Senior Republican and Democratic lawmakers continued to engage in informal discussions Sunday as Congress entered the second day of a shutdown that both sides wanted to avoid but didn’t appear to have a way to end.

Several moderates met repeatedly with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday in hopes of convincing them to reopen the government through Feb. 8 and commit on the Senate floor to holding an immigration vote before that date, said one senator involved in the negotiations, who asked not to be named because the talks are private.


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/21/government-shutdown-2018-trump-senate-354113

[truth_seeker]

So now the interests of Federal employees jump to the top of the priority list?

Does that mean the troops fell down the list? Does that mean it is or is not 800,000 dreamers, or 3.6 million?

Does that mean chain immigration is going to be included or not?

I do not recall "federal employees" representing a place in the earlier lists.

On my list they rank at the very, very bottom, military excepted.

[Fishrrman]

"...and commit on the Senate floor to holding an immigration vote before that date, said one senator involved in the negotiations, who asked not to be named because the talks are private."

No. No. No. No!

The democrat-communists are trying to rig the outcome.

Don't give in, Pubbies!

[Frank Cannon]

"Moderates" always get things done. They never flail around and end up looking like a bunch of horses asses....