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Road Blog: Economic Meeting in Washington, D.C.

By Obama Road Blog - Jul 28th, 2008 at 9:37 pm EDT

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Senator Barack Obama convened an economic meeting in Washington, DC today with a bipartisan group of economic leaders to discuss the immediate challenges facing the U.S. economy. The group included business leaders like Warren Buffett (who participated by speakerphone from Omaha, Nebraska), labor leaders John Sweeney and Anna Burger, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt as well as six former cabinet secretaries and a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve who served under three Presidential administrations.

Although participation in the economic roundtable does not necessarily signal endorsement of the campaign, each attendee at today's meeting providing advice to the campaign on key economic issues.

Here's the a video of Barack's opening statement to the group before the meeting got underway:
Arun Chaudhary
July 28th, 2008
Washington, DC

Read the full list of economic leaders who participated in the meeting today . . .

The economic leaders who met with Senator Obama today included:

· Jared Bernstein (Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute)

· Bill Bradley (Former Senator, D-N.J., U.S. Senate 1979-1997)

· Warren Buffet (Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway) - joined the meeting by phone

· Anna Burger (Chair, Change to Win; International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union)

· Jon Corzine (Governor, State of New Jersey)

· William Daley (Chairman of the Midwest, JP Morgan Chase; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Commerce, 1997-2000)

· James Dimon (Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase)

· William Donaldson (27th Chairman of the SEC 2003-2005)

· Indra Nooyi (Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.)

· Paul O'Neill (Special Advisor, Blackstone Group, Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Treasury, 2001-2002; Former CEO, Alcoa)

· Federico Peña (Managing Director, Vestar Capital Partners; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1997-1998; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1993-1997; Former Mayor, City of Denver 1983-1991)

· Penny Pritzker (CEO, Classic Residence by Hyatt)

· Robert Reich (University of California, Berkeley; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Labor, 1993-1997)

· Robert Rubin (Chairman and Director of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Treasury, 1995-1999)

· Eric Schmidt (Chairman and CEO, Google)

· William Spriggs (Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, Howard University)

· Lawrence Summers (Harvard University; Managing Director, D.E. Shaw; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Treasury, 1999-2001)

· John Sweeney (President, AFL-CIO)

· Laura Tyson (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Former Chairman, National Economic Council, 1995-1996; Former Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1993-1995)

· Paul Volcker (Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve 1979-1987)

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