Budget deal expected to be completed this week, report says FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2013, file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, left, R-Wis., accompanied by Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington where they outlined their approach to tackling the nation's debt problems. House and Senate negotiators are expected to agree to a budget deal for the first time since 2011, according to a Washington Post report Sunday. The agreement is expected to be done sometime this week, the last week that both the House and Senate are scheduled to be in session. House Speaker John Boehner has said that he intends to adjourn the House December 13. for the Christmas and New Year's holiday recess. The report that the deal was close echoes the optimism expressed by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who both told ABC's "This Week" that they hoped an agreement would be reached. The Post reported that the chief negotiators, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. and Sen Patty Murray, D-Wash., would take the deal straight to the full House and Senate, bypassing their respective budget committees. It also reported that the proposed deal would partially repeal sequester spending cuts and raise agency spending to $1.015 trillion in fiscal years 2014 and 2015. Negotiations are reportedly continuing over $65 billion in alternative policies to pay for the increased spending. The paper also reported that Ryan and Murray were close to agreeing on a small increase in the amount of contributions federal workers make toward their pensions, saving taxpayers less than $17 billion, far less than even a proposal made by President Obama, which would have mandated a 1.2 percent increase in worker contributions, aimed at saving $20 billion. Click for the story from The Washington Post