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Obama to call for bipartisan energy meeting
President Barack Obama will gather a bipartisan group of senators at the White House next week to discuss comprehensive climate change and energy legislation, Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday night.
The White House Chief of Staff told Charlie Rose that Obama would bring in "bipartisan members who worked on this in the Senate to the White House to get the best ideas from all the legislation to address it on a comprehensive basis."
The BP oil spill should be a wake-up call to pass an energy bill, Emanuel said, noting that the House has already acted.
"Obviously if we don't, it's a lost opportunity. And the president
thinks this is the opportunity to finally get done what hasn't been
done to date for the country," Emanuel said.
"Never allow a good crisis to go to waste when it's an opportunity
to do things that you have stopped yourself from doing before," he
added.
