Late Show - Sen. Barack Obama WASHINGTON nervously surveyed the market the next trading session of the Congress of Democrats and Republican senators for an agreement Saturday on a multibillion-dollar package to rescue the financial sector pushed. House Republicans said they would not accept a panic rate relief are added. But in a sign of possible progress, the House Rules Committee began drafting guidelines for a debate and a vote that might have come Sunday to take, what to send the billthe Senate for final passage on Monday. President Bush to watch the action, sent Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson back to Capitol, where lawmakers have been working all weekend. Presidential politics again played a role in the negotiations. Republicans John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama called key negotiators and portrayed themselves as helping without being directly involved in the talks. "The goal is to come, with a final agreement by tomorrow," said Senate Majority Leader HarryReid, D-Nev. "We can not do in the situation, but we're working hard." He said he hoped for an announcement of 6 clock EDT Sunday, just hours before the opening of Asian markets for the week. "Everyone is for this thing to tip a bit 'too long to wait," he said, so "we can not even one day." House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Said an announcement could come early on Saturday evening. But House Republican leaders, some of the elements of the Bush administration have resisted the proposal...
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