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Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees held their first public meeting to consider the 2013 farm bill.

The U.S. House of Representatives convened for a legislative session.

Live television news coverage produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation of Parliamentary election results was shown. Early election returns indicated that the ruling Liberal Party had lost the election paving the way for a minority Conservative Party government.

Kimball Brace talked about the 2010 Census and the redistricting process. He focused on the difference between reapportionment and redistricting, the role and influence of state legislatures, and significant demographic shifts over the past decade. He also responded to questions from the audience.

Members of the Progressive Caucus reacted to the debt ceiling agreement. They said that they would not vote for the compromise legislation to raise the debt ceiling because the imbalance of major spending cuts with no provisions for revenue increases would be an attack on the most vulnerable Americans.

President Obama appeared in the Briefing Room on Sunday evening to announce that congressional leaders had reached agreement on the debt ceiling.

Senate Democratic leaders spoke to reporters and answered questions following a caucus meeting on strategy toward legislation of deficit reduction and the debt ceiling.

President Obama spoke to reporters about the status of negotiations on raising the debt ceiling and deficit reduction. He called on Congress to reach a compromise before the deadline. He also outlined several paths to resolve differences and outlined the consequences of inaction.

The House debated a revised version of Speaker Boehner’s proposed deficit reduction and debt ceiling legislation, as well as rules governing the debate.

House Speaker John Boehner gave the Republican response to President Obama’s national address on raising the debt ceiling.