Progress has been halting, coming in fits and starts since Election Day, but President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R- Ohio) have hewed closer to one another in recent days.
Later at the public safety press conference, Senators Joe Liebermann (I-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) announced that they had, that day, introduced a bill in the Senate that also calls for the reallocation of the D Block to public safety and would provide funding using revenue from future auctions.