Posted Feb. 8, 2010

President Obama has invited the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress to a meeting near the White House to work on health care reform legislation.

"What I have been doing is consulting closely with the leaders in the House, the leaders in the Senate on the Democratic side and I want to consult closely with our Republican colleagues so, they’re going to be coming into the White House next week," the president told CBS News' Katie Couric on Sunday afternoon. "What I want to do is to ask them to put their ideas on the table."

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The BPC's Leaders Project on the State of American Health Care released its plan for comprehensive health care reform last June. Read the plan here.

Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care, Bipartisanship