HARRISBURG — Negotiators continued to haggle over the details holding up Pennsylvania's state budget Monday, 10 days after Gov. Ed Rendell and top-ranking lawmakers trumpeted a breakthrough agreement they said would soon end a three-month-old impasse.

Remaining sticking points included how to implement proposals to add table games such as blackjack and poker to the state's slots casinos and a new tax on some small games of chance — two sources of new revenue crucial to filling the state's recession-driven multibillion-dollar shortfall.

Rendell said after meeting with leaders of three of the Legislature's four caucuses that they would attempt to send him the bills that make up the annual spending plan by Sunday, "Tuesday at the very, very latest."

"I'm not satisfied with the pace of where we are, and neither are they," Rendell said.

The Democratic governor also urged the General Assembly to convene and stay in session until the plan is passed and signed into law. The Senate planned to do so, but House Democratic caucus spokesman Brett Marcy said details regarding that chamber's schedule after Wednesday's voting session were not available.

"We've had time," Rendell said. "We should be able to get this done, no ifs, ands or buts about it. And there are a lot of people out there who are depending on us to get this done."

Rendell said he was not worried that the handshake budget deal was falling apart in the face of some opposition to particular elements, including drilling for gas on state land and the small games of chance tax.

"There's always opposition to certain parts of the budget," he said.

Wrapping things up by Sunday would require legislative leaders to resolve all elements still in dispute and then get the budget bills through the politically divided Legislature.

"They agreed that they would work toward that goal, and they thought that goal was achievable," Rendell said.

House Republicans, who oppose the size of the budget and its new taxes, said they were not invited to the meeting. They hold 99 seats in the 203-member House, not a majority but enough to doom the budget if only a few Democrats defect.

Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, said he was encouraged by the House Democratic leaders' projections of their members' support for the plan.

"As each day passes, the number of open issues gets smaller and shorter," he said. "The most unresolved issue, if you'll call it that, is the table games issue."

Rendell urged leaders to set the tax level for table games high enough to balance the budget. If not, he said, he would exercise his line-item veto power, but did not think that would be necessary.

Pileggi said negotiations regarding spending levels, including which programs will be cut, and how deeply, were "largely resolved. There's a couple questions that need to be worked through," he said.

Rendell said once a budget is signed some overdue payments will be put on the fast track, and all payments should be made within 10 days.