Obama to meet with senior (NY Times)

For the session to the Blair House across the street from the White House are executives from a range of industries, including American Express, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical, Google, Motorola, Intel, UPS and PepsiCo, according to people involved in planning. But the White House said it wouldn't disclose the participants to the meeting.

With mood for the meeting already lightened by its ads recent trade agreement with South Korea and compromise on reductions of taxes with the Republican Congress, Mr. Obama and leaders will discuss the various issues, said Jen Psaki, Deputy White House Communications Director. Topics will be the reduction of the deficit, a revision of the tax code, government regulation, promotion of exports, investments in public and private sectors in areas such as technology and clean efforts aimed at improving education and skills, energy and Ms. Psaki said.

"The biggest challenge to which we are confronted with forward is not competition between Democrats and Republicans," said Ms. Psaki, but to ensure that we are preparing the next generation to compete globally. The working session is an opportunity for the President to continue building strong partnerships in the business community toward this goal. »

Partnerships, the administration has developed, especially for Mr. Obama, initial economic stimulus package were quickly chafed by differences in the subsequent efforts of White House on the revision of the insurance and financial regulatory systems.

Chamber of commerce of the United States, professional associations and businesses spent enormous sums of money to take control of the House and increase the number of seats they hold on the Senate; helping Republican midterm elections Mr. Obama criticized divulging them does not their collaborators.

However, since the election, the President of the Chamber, Thomas j. Donohue, which became a nemesis of administration, accompanied by Mr. Obama on his trip to Asia in November and said in a speech that his organization would not operate against the re-election of President.

In 2009, Mr. Obama held similar tax issues forums and job creation. He has met separately with executives and senior as Timothy f. Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury Board and Valerie Jarrett, m. Obama business link often have meetings and dinners with business advisors.

Mr. Obama "will be more experienced and build coalitions that there before," Mr. Donohue said Friday in an interview on Fox News.

Financial regulation and health care issues continue to blur business relations because the administration now works in the drafting of the regulations for the implementation of these two acts. And fighting could weigh on the reduction of deficits and simplify the tax code with industry ready to protect a raft of subsidies and tax breaks.