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An Agreement Before The 15th Of September - Air Force One Press Gaggle by Robert Gibbs 8/15/09
— Tuesday, August 18, 2009 —
 Q What's the message we're going to hear from your surrogates on the morning shows tomorrow?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think I'm one of them so --
Q Oh, really? I didn't even look at the list.
MR. GIBBS: I think we'll spend most of our time talking about health care and the economy.
Q It was interesting, both Valerie and Podesta have made a comment recently in which they said they thought that the ultimate product was going to -- I believe this is what they said -- it was going to end up being more centrist than to the left in terms of the legislation that would come out. I might be misinterpreting that, but the implication was that it was going to appeal to the moderate -- the more middle of America position on health care.
MR. GIBBS: I haven't seen the comments, I don't know what John or Valerie said. Look, I think you're going to get a health care plan that -- well, as the President said today, you start with about 80 percent of agreement on what's going on in Congress. Obviously the plan that went through Energy and Commerce on the House side did so after quite a bit of negotiating and bargaining with Blue Dog Democrats on Capitol Hill, and we're -- I know the President spent some time with Senator Baucus yesterday talking about seeing if the Finance Committee can also get an agreement before the 15th of September.
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