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Obama Calls For Give And Take With GOP
Tuesday February 09, 2010 16:50:00 EST

(RTTNews) - President Barack Obama Tuesday called on Republican leaders to be more accepting of Democratic proposals, urging them to meet him halfway on major proposals.

Speaking to reporters in a rare appearance in the White House briefing room, Obama said he had stressed to GOP leaders in an earlier meeting that bipartisanship requires both sides to compromise.

"Bipartisanship can't be that I agree to all the things that they believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in and want," he said. "I'm willing to move off some of the preferences of my party in order to meet them halfway. But there's got to be some give from their side as well."

He added, "That's true on health care; that's true on energy; that's true on financial reform."< (continued...)

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