Obama recently announced he would invite Republicans to a televised health care summit on Feb. 25, aimed at jump-starting the stalled negotiations.[...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told the president’s chief of staff on Tuesday that Republicans would “rightly be reluctant” to attend a bipartisan health care summit on Feb. 25 if President Barack Obama wants to negotiate on the bills already produced in the House and Senate instead of starting from scratch.
In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Boehner and Cantor wrote, “If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate.”
Perhaps they should take him up on his offer to go through both the house and senate bills "line by line." Either that, or start over with a blank sheet of paper.
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