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An unusual health care summit involving House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and Republican Whip Eric Cantor appeared in the works Thursday when the two men announced on the House floor that they have agreed to meet next week.
“I look forward to sitting down next week to see if there are areas where we can agree,” Hoyer, D-Md., said during his weekly discussion with Cantor on the House floor about the coming week’s agenda.
Cantor, R-Va., said that he and Hoyer spoke briefly this week about arranging the session that Hoyer had first suggested two weeks ago. “I look forward to hearing from his office about a meeting” sometime next week, Cantor said.
Hoyer first broached the idea of a rare meeting between the top Democratic and Republican House leaders after Cantor publicly suggested that the two sides agree on 80 percent of ideas about overhauling health care. Hoyer also said he wanted to meet with Rep. Charles Boustany Jr., a top GOP Ways and Means Committee member who made a similar statement.
Hoyer met with Boustany last week but never sat down with Cantor. On Tuesday, Hoyer told reporters that was because after examining some of Cantor’s other recent comments he felt that the 80 percent statement was overblown.
“It did not appear to me that the 80 percent figure leaped off the page,” Hoyer said.
Cantor responded to that comment by requesting the meeting with Hoyer to see what areas of agreement are possible on the bitterly contentious issue. Cantor said he hoped the meeting “would yield the ability for us to work together on things we can agree on.” But he warned that Republicans will not support what he called “moves toward a government takeover of the health care system.”