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A deadline looming, President Barack Obama will
meet Friday with congressional leaders at the White House in search
of a compromise to avoid a year-end "fiscal cliff" of across-the-
board tax increases and deep spending cuts.
The development capped a day of growing urgency in which Obama
returned early from a Hawaiian vacation while lawmakers snarled
across a partisan divide over responsibility for gridlock on key
pocketbook issues. Speaker John Boehner called the House back into
session for a highly unusual Sunday evening session.
Adding to the woes confronting the middle class was a pending
spike of $2 per gallon or more in milk prices if lawmakers failed to
pass farm legislation by year's end.
