One key to breaking the current impasse on climate and energy legislation, says the League's Gene Karpinski, will be if the public demands stronger leadership from members of Congress and from the White House.

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But a House Democratic leadership aide said a compromise had little chance in the House, whose members expect to leave town for the year on Thursday afternoon.

CNN: Automaker bailout appears stalled in Senate

Privately, members of the House Democratic leadership begin to push Weiner to end what many now see as an unwelcome diversion.

CNN: Key dates in the Anthony Weiner scandal

But members of the House Democratic leadership have talked repeatedly in recent days to try to get him to end what has become an unwelcome political distraction, a member of the party's leadership told CNN before Weiner's press conference Monday.

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