Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid worked closely over the weekend with staff for House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on a bill to resolve the debt-ceiling standoff — until Reid pulled out after meeting with President Obama at the White House Sunday.

“He and his staff were writing the bill with us,” says a senior Republican.  “We were still working on it by the time he got back from the White House.”  Asked whether Reid and his staff were fully involved in the work, the senior Republican replied, “edit after edit after edit.”  A key GOP aide confirmed the account.