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DTN News - U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS: Debt Bill Set For Vote As White House Urges Compromise

DTN News - U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS: Debt Bill Set For Vote As White House Urges Compromise

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / WASHINGTON, US - JULY 28, 2011:

A Republican deficit reduction plan headed to a close vote in Congress on Thursday and the White House urged divided lawmakers to clinch a compromise deal to head off the risk of a debt default by the world's largest economy.

President Barack Obama's priority was to "lift the cloud and make sure that the United States does not default," White House spokesman Jay Carney said, five days before an August 2 deadline for raising the government's borrowing limit.

Partisan deadlock between Republicans and Democrats over how best to reduce the U.S. deficit, and over what period, has blocked an agreement so far to allow the raising of the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.

A failure to raise the debt limit by August 2 could trigger a crippling default that would shake the global financial system and could tip the United States back into recession.

While most analysts hope a default will be avoided by an eleventh-hour deal, the risk remains for a damaging downgrade of the United States' top-notch credit rating, a move that would raise U.S. borrowing costs and rattle global investors.

Carney said the debt stalemate had "already had significant negative impact on the economy."

"The American people have made clear they want a compromise," he said. "Our primary objective has to be to protect the economy and the American people from economic harm."

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has tentatively scheduled a vote on Thursday between 5:45-6:15 p.m. EDT on a deficit-cutting plan presented by the top Republican in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner.

Boehner has been cajoling fiscal conservative rebels within his own party to support his bill, which does not deliver the severe spending cuts as they demand.

"We don't have the votes yet, but we'll get there," a spokesman for Boehner said.

But the White House's Carney said Boehner's plan would not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.

He said a successful compromise must significantly cut spending, install a mechanism to tackle tax reform and entitlement spending in the future, and lift the debt ceiling through next year.

"We need to start doing things that can pass both houses and be signed into law," he added.

The uncertainty over the U.S. debt talks outcome has been rattling global markets.

But after an initial fall, European shares ended higher on Thursday, snapping three consecutive sessions of losses on hopes a solution would be found to the debt crisis in the United States.

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as better-than-expected data on home sales and employment lent support to the market after equities suffered their worst day in eight weeks in the previous session.

(Additional reporting by JoAnne Allen, Dave Clarke and Rachelle Younglai and Rick Cowan, Alister Bull, Caren Bohan, Laura MacInnis and Tabassum Zakaria in Washington, Anirban Nag in London; Writing by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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