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Jan 15, 2010 by News Gatherer
WASHINGTON — President Obama has taken full control of the bloom care negotiations, casting himself for the first time in the role of mediator between the House and Senate during a 72-hour marathon of talks that have angry his White House into a de facto Congressional conference.
Obama spent more than six hours with Democratic leaders on Wednesday, slipping in and out of bloom care talks to coordinate a response to the earthquake in Haiti. He spent much of Thursday in bloom care talks, bath out in the evening to address House Democrats and attend his daughter Malia’s band recital (she plays flute) and then returning to the negotiating table until 1 a.m., shortly before the group recessed for the night. Mr.
to 3:45 p.m., at which point the White House announced that Mr. He was back at it Friday afternoon, holed up already again in the Cabinet Room from 1 p.m. Obama was done holding or attending bloom care meetings, at least for now — a signal that officials are waiting for cost analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.
“It was consistently our sense that already the bills were passed that he would have to play a much more direct role in helping work out the details,” his chief adviser, David Axelrod, said in an interview, as the talks went on down the hall from his West Wing office. “This has been a prodigious task from start to finish; we knew it would be.”.
Mr. Obama has consistently had political buying of the bill, and with Republican attacks on it mounting and public opinion moving against him, he has become more assertive about its benefits, telling House Democrats that if Republicans want to campaign against the measure, “that is a fight I want to have.”.
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