U.S. bipartisan meeting on health care to be televised: official

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- A bipartisan meeting on the health care reform scheduled by the U.S. government on Feb. 25 will be broadcast live, said a government official on Monday.

The officials, who remained anonymous, told CNN that the White House expected "the whole thing to be live," without disclosing any details on the coverage.

He also said that the move is to aimed at fulfilling one of Obama's promises made in the presidential campaign to broadcast health care reform negotiations live.

Obama was scheduled to meet with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to prepare for the half-day talks on Feb. 25, which is an attempt to rescue the health care legislation.

He told a CBS interview on Sunday that he expected to talk to bipartisan lawmakers in a "methodical way" so "the American people can see and compare what makes the most sense."

The House of Representatives and the Senate has separately passed their own version of the health care reform bill but the unified version was stalled in Congress after Scott Brown, a Republican, won the special election for a Senate seat in Massachusetts, ending Democratic Party's supermajority status in the floor.

Obama said in his first State of Union on Jan. 27 that he would be seeking bipartisan cooperation to push forward with the legislations.