Obama Meets With House And Senate Leaders In Effort To Boost Bipartisanship
Tuesday February 09, 2010 14:00:00 EST

(RTTNews) - President Barack Obama Tuesday hosted a meeting with the House and Senate leaders from both parties to map a more bipartisan course for the future.

Obama said he called the meeting in an attempt to address the frustration of the American people at Congress' seeming inability to work together on key issues.

"Although the parties are not going to agree on every single item, there should be some areas where we can agree and we can get some things done even as we have vigorous debates on some of those issues that we don't agree on," Obama said.

He added, "A good place to start ??? is how we can move forward on a jobs package that encourages small business to hire, that is helping to create the kind of environment where now that we have economic gro (continued...)