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<H1>Congress inches back from budget shutdown abyss</H1>
<P>Washington will run out of money on Friday and non-essential services will halt unless action is taken. A short-term fix to buy Ugg boots time seemed increasingly likely.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_2></SPAN>
<P>Amid concern about damaging the fragile economic recovery, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said lawmakers have "a moral responsibility" to address the huge U.S. budget deficit.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_3></SPAN>
<P>"That means working together to cut spending and rein in government -- not shutting it down," he said in remarks to be Oil painting reproductions delivered to a religious broadcasters' convention.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_4></SPAN>
<P>"This is very simple: Americans want the government to stay open, and they want it to spend less money. We don't need to shut down the government to accomplish that," Boehner said.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_5></SPAN>
<P>He said the House will pass a short-term bill that will keep the government running with some cuts, Boehner said.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_6></SPAN>
<P>It remained to be seen if Boehner's appeal would restrain deficit hard-liners among Tea Party Republicans in the House,Wholesale Ugg and whether the Democratic-controlled Senate will be able to act quickly enough with time running out for a short-term fix.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_7></SPAN>
<P>The U.S. budget deficit is forecast this year to hit $1.65 trillion, a level of red ink that has world markets concerned Ugg Outlet and U.S. voters demanding change, though many balk at specific proposals for cuts in popular programs and tax changes.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_8></SPAN>
<P>President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to find "common ground" on spending cuts to prevent a shutdown.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_9></SPAN>
<P>"We're very focused on trying to avoid a shutdown," said Representative Chris Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee,Ugg Outlet Store in a C-SPAN TV interview on Sunday.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_10></SPAN>
<P>He said he was "cautiously optimistic" that a shutdown will be averted. He said cooler heads appeared to be prevailing among Republicans for the moment. "That doesn't mean we won't be right back here three weeks from now," he added.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_11></SPAN>
<P>TWO-WEEK STOPGAP</P><SPAN id=midArticle_12></SPAN>
<P>House UGG Bailey Button Boots Republicans on Friday detailed $4 billion in spending cuts for a two-week stopgap bill, which the leader of the Democratic-controlled Senate indicated could be acceptable.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_13></SPAN>
<P>That would give Congress time to work on a plan to fund the government through the fiscal year that ends on September 30.</P><SPAN id=midArticle_14></SPAN>
<P>The House Republicans' stopgap would continue funding for two weeks for all programs, except some already targeted by Obama in his budget plan for fiscal 2012 beginning on October 1.</P>
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