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(Miser/3435) Summit spin: Real effort or photo op?

Summit spin: Real effort or photo op?
By PATRICK O'CONNOR -- 2/22/10 5:05 AM EST

President Barack Obama has billed Thursday's health care summit as a chance for
lawmakers to "seek common ground" to solve a decades-old problem.

He doesn't want political theater, he insists, but a serious effort to forge
bipartisan consensus.

And yet Obama is unveiling a health care bill just days before the six-hour
summit that wouldn't require a single GOP vote, with plans to short-circuit the
Senate rules and push it through without Republicans if necessary.

That's left some Republicans angrily questioning whether the summit is a sham
and even Democrats uncertain and noncommittal.

"I'm not terribly heartened by what I've heard over the past week," said
Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a conservative Republican who wasn't invited to the
health care talks at Blair House on Thursday. "I'm not certain what the White
House is up to, but it appears they are trying to meld a bill together without,
again, any input from Republicans. It doesn't sound like bipartisanship. ...
I'm afraid it's just another photo op."

House Minority Leader John Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel, said that "it
would be baldfaced hypocrisy to continue hammering out the latest partisan
backroom deal while preparing for a 'bipartisan' summit."

The White House plans to release Obama's bill Monday and previewed one aspect
of it Sunday night -- a proposal to give the federal government sweeping new
authority to curb excessive rate hikes by the nation's health insurance
companies.

The proposal seems designed to play off voter anger toward recent double-digit
increases by Anthem Blue Cross of California and adds a populist tinge to
Obama's proposal, of the president standing up to big insurance companies. The
idea wasn't included in either the House or Senate health reform bills that
passed last year.

The Democrats' push to reform the health care system has always moved on two
tracks: the public track -- what the president and others say in public -- and
the private one -- what they negotiate behind closed doors.

But those two efforts seem at odds this week like never before, as Obama makes
a final public pitch for bipartisan cooperation -- with live TV coverage, no
less -- at the very moment he seems most prepared to abandon it completely.
He's trying to engage Republicans to make his case for reform but is laying the
groundwork to go around them if they won't sign on.

The White House's announcement of Obama's legislation Monday would serve as the
template for a final bill, and barring any last-minute Republican conversions,
Democrats would attempt to use a procedural tactic that only requires
Democratic votes in the Senate to pass it.

An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) let reporters know last
week that his boss wants to add a public option to the final bill if Democrats
choose to pursue a once-arcane procedural maneuver called reconciliation, in
which the ruling party only needs a simple 51-vote majority for passage.

But even Democratic leaders are queasy about whether they can muster the votes
to pass it in the post-Massachusetts environment. Senate moderates, in
particular, have rebelled against the idea of using reconciliation to pass
reform.

And on a conference call last week, Democrats in the House agreed not to
embrace the president's plan until their rank and file has had a chance to
review it this week after returning from recess, according to people on the
call. As late as Sunday, four separate House aides said they didn't know
exactly what the White House is planning to propose.

The stakes for Obama couldn't be higher. Despite a year of having sizable
majorities in the House and Senate, he has been unable to bring fractious
Democrats together to complete health reform. Now he and the party are heading
into the 2010 midterm elections with little in the way of popular initiatives
to show for a year in power, and the White House is anxious to pass a health
care package filled with voter-friendly provisions.

Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33251.html

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White House Develops Its Own Health Care Bill

The quest for health care reform continues. According to Roll Call the White House has developed its own version of a merged House-Senate health care reform package and plans to have it online for public review by Monday in advance of a bipartisan health care summit scheduled for Feb. 25. As reported, the White House has taken what it considers the best of the House and Senate bills and come up with their own proposal.

Roll Call article.

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Report: House subcommittee petitions Toyota for secret documents

Filed under: Government/Legal, Recalls, Toyota

According to a report by Automotive News, the House Oversight Committee has issued a subpoena to former Toyota lawyer Dimitrios Biller requiring him to submit secret documents to Congress in advance of a February 24 hearing about the Japanese automaker's unintended acceleration issues. Biller is required to submit the reported four 18-inch bank boxes of documents to Congress by February 23. Biller filed a federal racketeering suit against his former employer over the summer.

Just one week ago Toyota won a temporary injunction against Biller barring the lawyer from releasing any of the secret documents. Biller's lawyer, Jeffrey Allen, says the congressional subpoena supersedes the injunction and that Biller intends to supply the documents by the February 23 deadline. Biller contends that Toyota destroyed multiple documents that could have implicated the automaker in SUV rollover cases. In late September, Texas Judge T. John Ward ordered Toyota not to destroy any crash informaton.

Toyota is suing Biller for $33.5 million for divulging confidential information and Biller's lawyer contends that Toyota's ex-lawyer flew to Japan and tried for four days to get executives to air his concerns over the handling of the information. Biller was then reportedly asked to resign and given a severance.

The February 24 House Oversight meeting has still more drama due to the fact that Toyota President Akio Toyoda will testify before the committee. Toyoda originally planned to leave the testifying to Yoshimi Inaba, president of Toyota's operations in North America. That changed when committee chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) sent a formal letter to the Toyota president requesting his presence.

We're not sure how the alleged SUV rollover info is relevant to unintended acceleration, but the bigger picture may be that congress is looking into whether Toyota has a history of hiding evidence that could potentially paint the company in a bad light.



[Source: Automotive News - Sub. Req. | Image: Junko Kimura/Getty Images]

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