Debt Ceiling Crisis: Another Day without Resolution as the Clock Ticks

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The political dance over the US debt ceiling crisis continued Sunday with the possibility that top lawmakers could be summoned to the White House, although no meeting had been scheduled.

The political dance over the US debt ceiling crisis and federal deficits continued Sunday with the possibility that top lawmakers could be summoned to the White House for more negotiating - although no meeting had been scheduled.

Positions were clarified (or at least reiterated) on the morning TV talk shows as the clock kept ticking toward the Treasury Department's August 2 deadline for raising the US debt limit in order to avoid Uncle Sam's not being able to pay some …