Obama hosts Congress leaders 3 days after elections

Three days after his party’s stinging midterm election defeat, President Barack Obama hosted congressional leaders at the White House, vowing to embrace policies untainted by partisanship.

“The American people just want to see work done here in Washington. I think they’re frustrated by the gridlock,” Obama said on Friday in a White House dining room where more than a dozen congressional leaders were seated.

Americans would “like to see more cooperation, and I think all of us have the responsibility, me in particular, to try to make that happen,” Obama said.

His guests included the incoming Senate majority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, and Republican House Speaker John Boehner. CONTINUE READING....
 
Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi were also in attendance.
  
Republicans trounced Obama’s Democrats in Tuesday’s elections, gaining control of the Senate and expanding their majority in the House.