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...negotiating. He was there gathering information." The aide added that all decisions remain with McCain and his senate staff. "Our counsel blessed him going to the hill." The campaign also pointed out that Obama's campaign spokesperson Robert Gibbs was giving statements to reporters at the Capitol Thursday, though there is no evidence that Gibbs or any other top-level Obama campaign adviser was meeting behind closed doors with House or Senate members. And having Davis - a former lobbyist who is already under the microscope because of his firm's previous work for Freddie Mac - meeting with House members could...
...specter of the campaign hanging over the high stakes talks on Capitol Hill only makes Wall Street more nervous that a deal will be hard to come...
...Earlier in the day some on Capitol Hill had speculated that the Democrats might try to go ahead, with their Senate Republican colleagues, to pass the plan without the support of most if not all House Republicans; there was even talk that they might include it as part of a continuing budget resolution to keep the federal government going that House Republicans would have a hard time voting against. But Pelosi made clear Friday afternoon that that was not a viable option: "We don't have the votes to do thatl that is our members have some reluctance on this...
...Even as they prepared for their debate, both McCain and Obama stressed that they would be returning to Washington over the weekend to participate in the negotiations. Whether that will help or hurt progress depends on which party you ask. House Republicans Friday hailed McCain's leadership on Capitol Hill, arguing he had given them a voice after they had been all but ignored in the horsetrading earlier in the week. "McCain came into town and the message there that House Republicans are relevant, we're not going to roll the House Republicans, we're not going to gang...
...urgency with which they were being called upon to act in the face of what the Bush Administration was warning is an imminent threat. "It's not like our guys are saying, 'We really want to pass this bill.' We've seen this before," noted one Democratic Capitol Hill veteran, alluding to the run-up to the Iraq war. "We found the weapons of mass destruction. They're at Wash Mutual...