ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />STORY: U.S. President Barack Obama warned Congress on Monday said the U.S. economy was poised for a good year as long as Washington politics did not interfere.<br/> <br />He said a Republican refusal to lift the debt ceiling could lead the United States into a debt default, which would prevent the U.S. government from being able to provide Social Security benefits to some seniors and possibly tip the economy into recession.<br/> <br />He also said Vice President Joe Biden has developed a list of sensible, common-sense measures to reduce gun violence and he would consider them.<br/> <br />Obama is to offer some proposals to reduce gun violence as a result of the massacre last month at a school in Newtown, Connecticut in which 20 children and six adults were shot to death.
