Confronting the skeptics, President Obama over the weekend told reporters that he’s confident the Senate this year can pass ambitious legislation to address the
“„“One of the things that we were convinced of was that we could not get the Senate to move aggressively until they saw how the politics aligned in the House,” Obama said in an interview with a small group of reporters in the Oval Office. … “I think now that you’ve seen somebody like a Rick Boucher of Virginia able to enter into very constructive negotiations with a [liberal Democrat like] Henry Waxman of California — that, I think, provides a blueprint for how the Senate can proceed.”