Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on the Senate floor Friday night that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had managed to work out an agreement about whether a budget for 2011 will include a rider that would defund women's health organizations across the country.

"I understand that has been worked out now with the Speaker and that he has considered a different approach now, thank goodness," Durbin said. 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office says there is no time scheduled for Reid to speak about budget negotiations. A speech on the Senate floor, which was originally scheduled for 8 p.m., has been pushed back repeatedly.

Members of congressional leadership are engaged in heated negotiations in an attempt to avoid a government shutdown that will begin at midnight if a solution is not reached. 

The Senate floor remains mostly quiet but is open for senators to come and speak on any subject. 

-- This post was updated at 10:00 p.m.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said she heard that there is now an agreement to avoid a government shutdown when she spoke on the Senate floor just before 9 p.m.

"I have heard the rumor that there is an agreement," said Hutchison. 

Hutchison was speaking on the floor to press a bill she has introduced to fund military pay in the event of a shutdown.  

If a deal to fund the government is not struck before midnight, the government will shut down.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will speak on the Senate floor at 9 p.m. Friday night, not at 8 p.m. as Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced earlier in the evening. Reid is expected to give an update on the budget negotiations at that time.

House Republicans and Senate Democrats remain in negotiations to prevent a government shutdown.

The House next week plans to continue its effort to repeal elements of last year's healthcare law, this time by repealing language establishing a federal public health fund.

The House Rules Committee on Tuesday is scheduled to approve a rule for H.R. 1217, the Repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF) Act. The bill repeals the PPHF, which funds prevention and public health programs in an effort to slow the rate of growth of healthcare costs.

In 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allocated $500 million to states for these activities, and just last month, HHS announced another $750 million allocation.

Congress this week successfully repealed a controversial IRS reporting requirement by passing so-called 1099 repeal. And the House next week might also take up H.R. 3, which would prevent federal funding for abortions. The House was scheduled to begin work on that bill this week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will speak on the Senate floor at 8 p.m. Friday with the expectation he will give an update on the budget negotiations.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) made the announcement about Reid's speech.

"I have my fingers crossed that at 8 p.m. the Senate majority leader will say we have overcome our problems," she said.

Sen. Frank Lautenburg (D-NJ) accused House Republicans of "brewing a toxic tea for America" in their plans to cut government spending. 

"They are continuing to brew a toxic tea for America," said Lautenberg in a speech on the Senate floor Friday. 

Lautenberg displayed a placard to his right with an image of a giant teabag and a nuclear symbol that read, "HOUSE GOP BREWING A TOXIC TEA FOR AMERICA."

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said House members should be ready to vote later today on a possible budget deal.

A measure to repeal net-neutrality regulations passed the House on Friday in a largely party-line vote.