President Barack Obama talks with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Assistant to the President
for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro. (White House)
President Obama is
meeting today with the one group of Congress people pretty much unanimously behind a major jobs and economic recovery effort—House Democrats.
Senior Democrats from the Republican-controlled House, a delegation expected to be headed by Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is due to meet Obama at 3:15 p.m. ET Tuesday.
Topping the agenda will be how to boost the economy and reduce a 9.1 unemployment rate, a senior Obama administration official said. [...]
Obama's meeting with House Democrats also comes at a time when members of a U.S. congressional debt reduction "super committee" are trying to come up with a plan to slash America's huge deficits before a November 23 deadline.
It was not immediately clear whether deliberations by the panel, which remains deeply divided, would figure into Obama's meeting with the Democratic leadership.
Hopefully the Catfood Commission II and the very bad plan proposed by the Democrats will be on the agenda, with some strong opposition to it, because that proposal has pretty much nothing to help the economy or create jobs.