niels lesniewski joins us from capitol hill. let's talk about the deadline to get in budget bill done, the spending bill. what -- where do we stand on that? >> as we headed through the thanksgiving weekend negotiations are ongoing between house and senate subcommittee chairman and raking members on getting the various bills completed. the last i heard was that there is a meeting scheduled for december 1 of the top level negotiators on both the house and senate side. i'm trying to get the final details ironed out. the potential problem is that even if the work the committee gets completed, there is the political considerations that need to be had as to whether or not that bill actually makes it to the floors of both the house and the senate. that may be complicated, particularly in the house. by what they decide to do about president obama's executive actions on immigration. the committee is trying to create a product separate from the political situation in hopes that it makes it to the floor. >> the house minority leader has sa

. >> roll call niels lesniewski is joining us. republican leader mitch mcconnell talked a lot in that speech in january about what would happen if the gop took control of the senate. with that happening in less than two months what we expect to see? >> well what we expect we are going to see is at least an attempt by senator mcconnell and the republican conference to restore some semblance of regular order to the senate floor proceedings, beginning of next year. what that means probably after some much wanted political votes and votes that are motivated by something set up and promised to republican voters, a vote on repealing the health care law for instance, is we are probably going to see the senate get into a pattern of moving regular legislation through the committee process which is almost entirely broken down and on the floor the ability of senators of both democrats and republicans to offer amendments to the legislation that's on the floor with the goal of being able to either thursday night or friday morning advance a bil

. >> niels lesniewski with "roll call," thank you. on the next "washington journal ," william galston will discuss his recent op-ed in the "wall street journal." bonnie glaser previous the president koss corporation -- previews the president koss corporation -- persident's cooperation. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. takes c-span cities tour booktv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. next week and we partnered with charter communications for a visit to madison, wisconsin. [indiscernible] it is a glorious service. the call comes to every citizen. tois an unending struggle make and keep government representative. probably the most important political figure in wisconsin mostry, and one of the important in the history of the 20th century of united states. he was a reforming governor. he defined what progressivism is. he was one of the first to

. >> niels lesniewski with "rollcall," thank you. >> congress returns to capitol hill this week. the house and senate back on wednesday 2:00 eastern. the house is scheduled to debate 10 bills, including the presidential records act which would allow current and former presidents to restrict records to their areas from the white house. orientation is also this week for new members. in the senate, votes already suspected on judicial nominations and childcare grants. watch the house live here on c-span and the senate live on c-span 2. a discussion on gridlock on capitol hill in the next congress. from "washington journal," this is 40 minutes. washington journal continues. >> william galston had a piece on the washington journal the american gridlock. have set the roadmap that you spoke about? >> they did break bread together. the issue of hat immigration has the capacity to really fall things up. the question is that given the fact the president has himself to issue it, retreat ably cannot from that promise. he has disappointed this panic -- , hispanic community. the question is whe