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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Both sides of Congress’ deadlocked “super committee” held separate talks on Saturday, but formal negotiations remained stalled, reaffirming gloomy predictions that the deficit-fighting panel may fail.
With a midnight Wednesday deadline fast approaching, the panel’s six Republican and six Democratic members were still far apart on how to achieve their goal of finding at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings over the next 10 years.
The Republican members held a Saturday morning conference call among themselves, but details about what was said on it were not immediately available, aides said.
Having rejected the latest Republican offer, the six Democrats were holding only private conversations this weekend, with no group meetings planned, aides said.
“The question is, is there anything more we can do with that or anything else,” Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican member of the committee, told reporters on Saturday. “We’re still talking, still trying to figure something out.”
The corridors of Congress were largely empty on Saturday.
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