AlQa'dah 22, 1434, Sep 28, 2013, SPA -- Lawmakers from both parties urged one another in a rare weekend House session to give ground in the fight over preventing a federal government shutdown, with the midnight Monday deadline fast approaching, according to AP. But there was no sign of yielding Saturday in a down-to-the-wire struggle that the Republican Party's conservative wing , supported by the limited government tea party movement. is using to try to derail President Barack Obama's signature health care law. Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address, accused House Republicans of being more concerned "with appeasing an extreme faction of their party than working to pass a budget." With pressure mounting on divided Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner scheduled a closed-door, lunchtime meeting of Republican lawmakers to see what, if any, legislation he could push through that might prevent large parts of the government from shuttering. Failure to pass a short-term measure to keep the government running would mean the first partial closing in almost 20 years. A single, agreed-upon version must be approved by both houses of Congress and signed by Obama by Tuesday. Such paralyzing fiscal fights have dominated Washington in recent years, underscoring the deep divide between the Republicans and the Obama administration and its Democratic allies. The two sides have managed in the past to come up with last-minute compromises to avoid a government closure. With nothing much to work on, House members took to their chamber's floor and mixed name-calling with cries for compromise. -- SPA 19:57 LOCAL TIME 16:57 GMT تغريد
