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Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:06 PM

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce didn't hear much to get excited about in President Barack Obama's health care address to Congress.

In a memo Thursday to K Street colleagues, the group's top lobbyist, Bruce Josten, called the speech "persuasively delivered," but added that the president "did not lay out a plan for health care reform." He further wrote that, based on the principles that Obama enunciated, the president "should oppose the current partisan plans produced by the House and the [Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions]." Josten concluded Obama should ask Congress to "go back to the drawing board and develop a bipartisan solution that can actually achieve the goals he laid out."

Last month, the chamber ran $15 million worth of ads in 21 states arguing that current health care reform bills would mean big tax increases, more government control and larger deficits. 

Click here for memo.

Josten.pdf

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