The House has recessed until the call of the chair. House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher said she got a call from Gov. Pawlenty asking her to hold off on the Education Funding vote. Kelliher said she agreed but was setting a firm deadline of this afternoon for them to reach an agreement. Private meetings are expected to occur shortly.
UPDATE: They're meeting right now. Gov. Pawlenty just lobbied the Senate GOP to vote against the Real ID bill. After the meeting he was asked about budget talks. His reply: "We're going to try to bring this to a head here today and see where that leads."
NOTE: I corrected the DefCon level after being alerted that DefCon 1 is really bad and DefCon 5 is good. Thanks for helping me out.
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