Obama Meets With Senate Democrats To Secure Support For Health Care Bill

Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 3:57PM
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President Barack Obama met with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill Sunday afternoon in an attempt to rally support behind health care reform legislation.

The private meeting, held in the U.S. Capitol, lasted approximately forty-five minutes.

According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Obama did not touch upon the role a public option would play in health care reform during his remarks.

“That doesn’t mean it’s not an issue just because the president didn’t talk about it,” Reid added.

The Majority Leader stated that Obama stressed health care reform as the most important issue that Democrats have been faced with since the formation of Social Security decades prior.

Obama was reportedly accompanied by administration officials including Vice President Joe Biden, who served in the Senate for over thirty years, advisor David Axelrod and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The president made a similar Capitol Hill excursion early November in the hours leading up to the House vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

Article originally appeared on Talk Radio News Service: News, Politics, Media (http://www.talkradionews.com/).