Obama and Republicans search for a deal on U.S. fiscal impasse<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-republicans-continue-talks-white-house-meeting-000542177--business.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vGHSwBnejsvrGXjloErnJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-11T134914Z_1644781060_GM1E9AB1OHB01_RTRMADP_3_USA-FISCAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington" border="0" /></a>By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional Republican leaders inched toward resolving their fiscal impasse on Friday, but struggled to agree on the length and terms of a short-term deal to increase the U.S. debt limit and reopen the government. Obama met Senate Republicans at the White House and spoke by phone to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner as negotiations intensified on how to get hundreds of thousands of federal workers back on the job and extend the government's borrowing authority past the October 17 limit. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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