WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden, emerging from a 2 1/2-hour meeting with Democrats in the House of Representatives, predicted a debt limit increase bill will pass Congress.

"I am confident that this will pass," Biden told reporters.

Saying he went to Capitol Hill to explain the deficit reduction and debt limit increase legislation he helped to broker, Biden added that under different circumstances "we would be talking about job creation, infrastructure (investment)."

(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai)