RGA Chairman Haley Barbour: White House Decision Disappointing

The Republican Governors Association urged the White House to reconsider its decision to exclude Democratic and Republican governors from the Health Care Summit scheduled to take place tomorrow.

“At the meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington this past weekend, it became clear that many states are making progress in health care reform, and governors have many ideas and policies on which consensus could be based at the national level,” said RGA Chairman Haley Barbour. “I am extremely disappointed to learn that governors will be excluded from the Obama Administration’s so-called health care summit tomorrow. If there really is to be a serious effort to develop a bipartisan agreement on health care reform, governors are critical to the equation.”