(01-27) 17:07 PST Washington - --It's a rare sight in Washington to see the president walking the halls of the Congress, stopping to talk to reporters in the usual hallway haunts, and rarer still to see him meet with the opposition party to hear their ideas on the first big legislation of his presidency.
Still stranger was this: The leaders of the out-of-power party, thrashed in two consecutive elections and the subject of all this presidential courting, told their members to vote against the president before he even arrived to hear their grievances. Hours before President Obama arrived Tuesday for GOP-only talks in the House and Senate on the $825 billion economic stimulus bill, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio and his deputy Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia told a closed-door meeting of Republicans to vote against the bill because it has too much government and will not revive the economy.
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Still stranger was this: The leaders of the out-of-power party, thrashed in two consecutive elections and the subject of all this presidential courting, told their members to vote against the president before he even arrived to hear their grievances. Hours before President Obama arrived Tuesday for GOP-only talks in the House and Senate on the $825 billion economic stimulus bill, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio and his deputy Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia told a closed-door meeting of Republicans to vote against the bill because it has too much government and will not revive the economy.
Full Story: Rare sight: president walks halls of Congress - San Francisco Chronicle
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