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Reid: Super-committee discussion with Boehner was ‘non-substantive’ [VIDEO]

Nicholas Ballasy Senior Video Reporter
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After his meeting with House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the two lawmakers’ discussion of the super committee negotiations was “non-substantive.”

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“This is not the first time I’ve met with the speaker,” Reid told reporter at the Capitol on Tuesday. “We meet on occasion. It’s harder to get together because the weeks don’t match. Two weeks on, one week off. This time I think it’s one week off and one week on. So we meet all the time.

“We talked about a number of things today. We have a lot of things to do before the end of the year comes. We probably have only three weeks left. And we had to talk about the things that we have to try to get done.

“Did we talk about the super committee? Yeah. But it — it was non-substantive. I have my people who are working on trying to come up with something, and so does he. I told him I cannot negotiate a — something that I have signed — three Democratic senators who are experienced and certainly understand the caucus. So, yes, we met, but we talked about a lot of things.”

The deadline for the super committee to produce a deficit reduction agreement has been set at Nov. 23.

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