President Obama said today that he is willing to tack toward the center on climate and energy legislation following closed-door bipartisan talks with Capitol Hill leaders on how to move the administration's domestic agenda during this election year. "Bipartisanship can't be that I agree to all the things that [Republicans] believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in or want and that's the price of bipartisan," Obama told reporters after a meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders from the House and Senate. "But that's sometimes the way it gets presented." Go to story #1

The latest jobs proposal Senate Democrats hope will win Republican support includes extensions of a number of energy provisions and the current highway law. Draft legislation being circulated in Senate offices would match the one-year extensions that were included in the House bill for existing tax credits for hybrid heavy trucks and biodiesel and renewable fuels. Go to story #2