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House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
today issued the following statement regarding the health care summit being planned by congressional Democrats and the White House for February 25
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A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of paperhttp://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/02/latest-blatant-hypocrisy-of-john.html. We now know that instead of starting the 'bipartisan' health care 'summit' on Feb. 25 with a clean sheet of paper, the president and his party intend to arrive with a new bill written behind closed doors exclusively by Democrats -- a backroom deal that will transform one-sixth of our nation's economy and affect every family and small business in America."