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President-elect Barack Obama met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Monday to begin selling his economic-stimulus plan as his advisers offered more details, including a proposal to expand the child tax credit for poor families.
“We are in one of those periods in American history where we don’t have Republican or Democratic problems, we have American problems,” Mr. Obama said before a meeting with lawmakers of both parties. He went out of his way Monday to reach out to Republicans. “The monopoly on good ideas does not belong to a single party,” he said.
After the meeting, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he thought Congress could enact the recovery plan by Mr. Obama’s deadline, roughly six weeks from now. “I am convinced as a result of listening to the president-elect that he is interested in what Republican ideas might be for the stimulus package,” Mr. McConnell said.
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