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According to POLITICO, Vice President Biden has been shut out of deal negotiation by Harry Reid:
The vice president’s disappearance has grown ever more noticeable as the government shutdown enters its eighth day with no resolution in sight and a debt limit crisis looms. Biden was once Democrats’ deal-maker-in-chief, designing budget pacts with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the summer of 2011 and New Year’s Eve 2013.
But Biden’s deals rubbed Democrats raw. He gave up too much, they said.
And for that, they have frozen him out — at least for now.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/joe-biden-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling-97969.html#ixzz2h9R81Lnv
Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden - Jonathan Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com.
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