US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she will start talks with Congress leaders on Monday or Tuesday.

The pressure is building on Congress from the Indian American community that played a phenomenal role in the run up to the passage of the Hyde Act with the refrain in community circles being that "anything" can be done in Washington provided there is a political will.

A senior community leader from Texas who played an instrumental role in bringing much of his State's delegation to vote for the Hyde Act including two prominent Senators, has called on the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman to see the writing on the wall.

Berman has supported the Hyde Act but is tough on non-proliferation issues; but even he too signalled on Sunday that if the administration wanted Congress to change the rules of the time frame then a sufficient case must be put forth - that is the civilian nuclear agreement is in full conformity with the Hyde Act.

"Chairman Berman, forty five nations of the NSG have given their approval and now it is time to waive the rules and let this agreement be considered by the congress for up and down vote in this session" the Chairman of the 'US-India Forum' Ashok Mago said.

"This agreement has the unconditional support in its present form from the leadership of your party and your counterpart in the Senate Senator Joe Biden. Both presidential candidates have expressed their full support and will like nothing more than to have this agreement passed in this Congress and focus on more urgent domestic issues," Mago told Berman.

One argument that is doing rounds that if the presently scheduled final Congressional session, ending on September 26, has less than thirty says of continuous Congressional session, there is no guarantee that a prospective Lame Duck session that could be convened after the elections of November 4 is going to last thirty days.

Normally at this time of the year Congress will break into recess sometime in the first week of October, making some progress on 'Appropriations Bills' or if anything signing off on Continuing Resolutions to keep government functioning.

But this time around Congress is scheduled to break on September 26 on account of the fact that 435 Members of the House of Representatives and One third of the Senators are facing elections on November 4.

Even as far as September 26,it is being pointed out that it is only "target" adjournment date that the leaderships in the House and the Senate have agreed to.