Anyway, sorry, the President spoke with Senators Reid and McConnell, Leader Pelosi and Speaker Boehner to discuss progress we are making in negotiations to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction.
Because that's what the President supports and I think that -- and I know that that's the argument he's making in these negotiations.
So by making this their precondition for negotiations, the PLO is doing what it did in 2000.
Sources within the dairy industry dismissed talk of a milk shortage as a scare story, put about to frighten dairy companies into making price concessions just as negotiations get under way for long term supply contracts.
That these moves have made Israel dependent on the kindness of strangers was made clear this week when Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed Israel's ambassadors to launch a campaign to convince the international community that Israel and the Palestinians are making great strides in their negotiations toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
In 1999 Mitchell published a book, "Making Peace, " on the negotiations in Northern Ireland.
When you have Senator McConnell making comments that he views these negotiations through the prism of 2012, how much does that poison the well?
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White House officials accused Republicans like Armey of making statements designed to undermine the negotiations, which have been suspended at least until next Wednesday.
If Congress wants to reduce spending, that should be part of the negotiations that go into making decisions about how we spend -- the programs we spend money on.
"If we feel that you are making decisions unilaterally and are using negotiations as an instrument to justify your illegal actions, be certain that the process will change, " he said.
Separated from their opponents by a thin margin, the right-leaning, pro-bailout New Democracy would face challenges all their own, including a tough road to a parliamentary majority, making further EU-proposed cuts and funding negotiations all the more difficult to pass.
Yesh Atid has opposed any division of Jerusalem - which both the Palestinians and Israelis claim as their capital - but is making a commitment to at least try to restart negotiations, which stalled over two years ago.
And by making it a US demand, Obama ended any possibility of resuming negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel.
But making current law the starting point and the default outcome for budget negotiations could push the president and Congress to find better solutions.
But by making promising public statements like those this week announcing further negotiations in March and April the Iranians "build a kind of hope, and the diplomats buy it, " Mr. Heinonen says.
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In making Jerusalem, rather than welfare payments the wedge issue in their negotiations with Livni, Shas's leaders demonstrated their recognition of the fact that defending Israeli sovereignty over the capital city is more important to their voters than increasing welfare.
As a member of the NFL's ten-person executive committee, Murphy knew his top priority was making sure the revenue-sharing regimen didn't get diluted during summer negotiations among owners.
The interests of peace would not have been served if, in negotiations with the Soviets, Nato countries had chased after agreements by making concessions that would have weakened Western defences.
Issa narrowed the request in negotiations with Holder in recent weeks to focus on documents pertaining to decision-making on withdrawing the February 2011 letter.
And I can assure you that every call begins with two things -- a call for restraint and a call for concrete direct negotiations so that the people can see the government is willing and able and actively making changes that will lead to free and fair elections.
Mr. Obama has largely stayed out of Senate negotiations aimed at overhauling immigration laws, satisfied that a bipartisan group of eight senators is making sufficient progress on its own.
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"The car industry has been driving negotiations all along and European Union politicians have been happy to sit in the passenger seat making comments about the scenery, " said Franziska Achterberg, the pressure group's EU transport policy campaigner.
The EU still thinks Turkey has further to go before formal accession negotiations can start, but even those member states least friendly to the Turks have been making conciliatory noises: on October 10th, the foreign minister of Greece, Turkey's traditional adversary, said he saw no reason why the EU should not set a date for accession talks with Turkey at its December summit in Copenhagen.
French manoeuvring in recent weeks blocked Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, from making sufficient concessions on agricultural protections to satisfy his counterparts in the current Doha round of world-trade negotiations.
While this type of comment sometimes acts as a diversion so that interviews and negotiations can be managed without too much additional distraction, it is often the case that the person making the comment really does believe that getting into specifics could skew the search process.
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