WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Senate will hold a rare Sunday session as United States (US) politicians grapple with how to reopen the shuttered government and avoid a potentially calamitous failure to pay the country’s debt obligations.

With Republicans in the House of Representatives blaming President Barack Obama for the collapse of talks on extending US borrowing authority, the Senate’s Republican and Democratic leaders scrambled to piece together a bipartisan exit strategy.

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