Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shown center, summons GOP senators to a closed-door meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Sen. McConnell and his Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal preventing a possible federal default and ending the partial government shutdown.
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