In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President
Obama today summoned a bipartisan group of over 20 senators to the White
House to push for energy and climate change legislation.
But one
thing the President did not want to talk about at the meeting was the BP
disaster, a Republican source told ABC News. And that, the source said,
led to a pointed exchange with GOP senator Lamar Alexander from
Tennessee.
“The priority should be fixing the oil spill,”
Alexander told the President, according to the source. “That's what any
meeting about energy should be about.”