They also warned negotiators had left too many contentious issues unresolved before the deadline for reaching a deal in Paris.
It is unclear what will happen if the matter is unresolved before the printing deadline.
Republicans responded by calling a recess, and the impasse was unresolved when the midnight deadline arrived, which also killed dozens of other bills that were left on the calendar.
While the impasse has remained unresolved, an informal late October deadline set by the US is approaching fast.
DOHA, Qatar — The United Nations climate conference here has settled into its typical doldrums, with most major questions unresolved as a Friday evening deadline for concluding the talks approaches.
But it did nothing to change the tendency of leaving crucial details unresolved until just before the deadline, Mr. Steuerle said.
A partial joint-statement is expected to be delivered before the Tuesday midnight deadline, with many unresolved details to be decided on in the coming months.
Johnnie B. Byrd Jr., a senior House Republican and co-chairman of the Legislature's select committee on the election, vowed in an interview today that even if contest actions are still unresolved by the Dec. 12 deadline for naming electors, the Republican-dominated Legislature will go ahead and pick a slate of 25 electors loyal to Mr. Bush.
This agreement, while a positive for markets, would then remove one potential land mine for markets ahead of February's debt ceiling deadline, which still remains unresolved.
Congressional negotiators raced Monday to finalize a $1.3 trillion spending bill to keep the government running, with several thorny issues such as health care and immigration still unresolved ahead of an end-of-week deadline.
And that crisis hilariously combines the next required lift of the debt ceiling with the unresolved sequestration cuts and forces a new deadline for both at the beginning of March.
