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Harry Reid told Mitch McConnell it was just plain wrong when McConnell told reporters there was reason for hope.

In what could be a sign of a major development in ongoing debt-ceiling negotiations, Democratic leadership will schedule a vote for 5:30 p.m. that would request the presence of every senator in the chamber, sources told The Hill Saturday afternoon.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) completed a meeting with President Obama at the White House at 5:05 p.m.

The procedural vote in the Senate would instruct the body's sergeant-at-arms to request the presence of absent senators to the Capitol.

Republicans have repeatedly called Reid to move up a vote on his debt-ceiling legislation that is currently scheduled for 1 a.m. on Sunday but the majority leader has refused unless they agree to set a mere majority threshold for the vote.

This story was updated at 5:12 p.m.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested House Republicans will use an unfair process to vote down his debt-ceiling legislation.

All but four Republican senators say they will not vote for the Senate majority leader's debt-ceiling plan.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) included Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) deficit-reduction proposal in a list of legislation recently produced by the House that he said was an "extravaganza" that made Republicans look "very foolish."

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday night said the House was unable to “tie their own shoes" and suggested it is now up to the Senate to negotiate a compromise to avert default. 

"We all know the Senate is the only way out of this mess," said Schumer who is the chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. 

The Senate majority leader revised his plan in a last-ditch bid to attract Republican support.

The Senate majority and minority leaders clashed over when and how to vote on Reid's debt proposal.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved to bring his own deficit reduction legislation to the Senate floor Friday night following a vote to table the Boehner proposal passed by the House earlier in the evening.

The first vote on Reid’s proposal could take place as soon as 1 a.m. on Sunday.

Reid’s plan would cut $2.7 trillion from the deficit over the next decade and would not raise any new revenue or make cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. It would raise the debt ceiling through 2012.

The 59-41 vote tabled the bill passed by the House less than two hours before.