US Congress deadlocked amid pleas for compromise

Latest update : 2011-07-30
As the US Congress splits along party lines, pressure has grown on lawmakers to set aside their differences and compromise ahead of an August 2 deadline to raise the country's debt ceiling.
A day after the Democrat-led US Senate voted down a Republican bill passed in the House of Representatives, members of Congress were forced back into negotiations Saturday to wrangle out a deal that could save the country from a calamitous default on August 2.
US Debt Crisis
Date created : 2011-07-30