Obama looks for ‘friends’ to move Health Care forward
President Barack Obama has invited Republican congressional leaders to join him, along with his Democratic colleagues, to discuss and agree on health care reform measures. Obama has proposed a televised meeting which would be held on February 25th.
Having expended much political capital on health care reform and coming within a hair’s-breath of passing new legislation until Scott Brown, the new Republican Senator from Massachusetts recently derailed the super-majority in the Senate, President Obama is reaching across the aisle to garner support.
“I want to come back [after the Presidents Day congressional recess] and have a large meeting — Republicans and Democrats — to go through, systematically, all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward,” Obama said in an interview with Katie Couric during CBS’s Super Bowl pre-game show Sunday.
“If we can go, step by step, through a series of these issues and arrive at some agreements, then, procedurally, there’s no reason why we can’t do it a lot faster than the process took last year,” he said.
So far, GOP members have reacted coolly to Obama’s invitation.
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on Feb 8 2010 Filed under Latest News, NATIONAL.
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