{"id":299168,"date":"2010-02-09T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.31886"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:11:25","slug":"obama-in-rare-briefing-room-appearence-after-meeting-with-congressional-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299168","title":{"rendered":"Obama in rare briefing room appearence after meeting with Congressional leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;In a surprise move, President Obama made  a very rare briefing room appearence on Tuesday afternoon, taking the podium usually occupied by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to report  bi-partisan meeting with the House and Senate leaders. <\/p>\n<p>He is also took several questions from the press, the first time he has taken questions from the White House press corps since a press conference on July 22.<\/p>\n<p> Obama has been stepping up his outreach to Republicans. Obama said he hoped &#8221; this will be first of a series of meetings I will have with the leaders of Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;In a surprise move, President Obama made a very rare briefing room appearence on Tuesday afternoon, taking the podium usually occupied by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to report bi-partisan meeting with the House and Senate leaders. He is also took several questions from the press, the first time he has taken questions from the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}