Obama: Confident Congress Will Pass Economic Recovery Package
28 Janeiro 2009 - 2:27PM
Dow Jones News
President Barack Obama took the case for his economic recovery
package to corporate America on Wednesday, telling a group of 13
corporate chieftains that he's confident the $825 billion
legislation will make it through Congress.
"I'm confident we're going to get this passed," Obama told
reporters at the start of his meeting with chief executives in the
Roosevelt Room.
Attendees included Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technology Inc.
(MU); David Barger, CEO of JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU); Greg
Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola Inc. (MOT); John Bryson, CEO of Edison
International (EIX); David M. Cote, CEO of Honeywell International
Inc. (HON); Debra Lee, CEO, of BET Holdings Inc.; Anne Mulcahy, CEO
of Xerox Corp. (XRX); Sam Palmisano, CEO of International Business
Machines Corp. (IBM); Antonio Perez, CEO of Eastman Kodak Co. (EK);
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc. (GOOG); Michael Splinter, CEO of
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT); Wendell Weeks, CEO of Corning Inc.
(GLW); and Ron Williams, CEO of Aetna Inc. (AET).
"These are people who make things, who hire people; they are on
the front lines," Obama said.
-By Henry J. Pulizzi, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-9256;
henry.pulizzi@dowjones.com
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