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WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 02: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) delivers opening remarks during a hearing about the Obama Administration's FY2011 budget on Capitol Hill February 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. White House Office of Managment and Budget Director Peter Orszag faced tough questions from both Republicans and Democrats about the budget, which would bring the projected deficit for 2010 to $1.6 trillion.
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Negotiating with Obama is a waste of time ... All it's doing is helping him fulfill a photo-op promise of having this stuff televised, and it's also to set (Republicans) up as the reason this didn't pass.
If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate
Assuming the president is sincere about moving forward on health care in a bipartisan way, does that mean he will agree to start over?
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