October 14, 2013 2:05PM ET Updated 7:45PM ET President says he still holds hope for progress in 'the next few hours' america.aljazeera.com President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had been scheduled to hold crunch talks in the White House at 3 p.m. Monday with the key players in negotiations over the country's fiscal impasse: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. But the White House said the meeting was postponed in order to give Senate party leaders more time to resolve their differences. It was not immediately clear how long the delay would last.
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