By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The panel of U.S. lawmakers seeking to craft a bipartisan budget deal is in a deadlock early in its deliberations, according to a Senate member, reinforcing fears that a December 13 deadline could produce no agreement. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Reuters the negotiations were "stuck, not irreconcilably, but stuck." Nearly one month ago, Congress created the House of Representatives-Senate working group as part of a deal that reopened the federal government following a 16-day shutdown and raised U.S. borrowing authority to avoid a potential default. The panel's purpose, in part, is to restore some order to the federal budget process and stop lurching from one temporary funding crisis to another, each of which carries the risk of a government shutdown. Because of deep differences in priorities between Republicans and Democrats, the 29-member "conference committee" started work on October 30 with low expectations.
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