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Obama and a 'Grand Bargain'

'Of course some of us responded by saying "Yes. But what is in that grand bargain?" We don't want to start whacking away at Social Security.'



Iowa Senator Tom Harkin

after a lunch with Senate Democrats

at which President Obama said

it was critically important to work

with Republicans in order to reach

a "grand bargain" to reduce the

country's budget deficit.



 

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