The president meets Wednesday with Senate Democrats, as the budget committee there and in the House of Representatives begin "marking up" budget resolutions, which form the framework for appropriations and other important legislation.
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"Hyatt also attempted to isolate Olbermann from his professional representatives in an awkward attempt to form a close personal friendship with his new star, " the suit says.
Since Congress, however, has the collective political will of a field mouse, our elected representatives have spent years wrangling over exactly what form this inevitable combination of increases and decreases should take.