(From the FT.com) Barack Obama, US President, took the opposition Republicans at their word on Sunday and announced that he would hold a televised White House summit with senior legislators from both parties to try to free the logjam to enact a US healthcare reform bill. 

Mr Obama’s comments, made in a live interview on CBS just before the Super Bowl American football final, came three weeks after his Democrats were deprived of their 60-seat Senate “supermajority” when they lost the Massachusetts election.

 “I want to come back [after the Presidents Day congressional recess on February 15] and have a large meeting — Republicans and Democrats — to go through, systematically, all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward,” said Mr Obama.

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