FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 4, 2009
Contact: Katie Laning Niebaum, Leah Vest DiPietro
(202) 224-4843

**RADIO ALERT**

AUDIO: Lincoln Briefs Arkansas Reporters On White House Meeting

Washington – During a conference call last evening, U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) briefed Arkansas reporters on her meeting with the President to discuss her health care priorities.

“I asked for this meeting with the President, just as I have continued discussions with Leader Reid during the past week, to seek ways to achieve health insurance reform without exposing taxpayers to further risk.  I believe I have an obligation to my Arkansas constituents to exhaust all the possibilities before the full Senate begins debate on a bill or even on the motion to proceed to a bill.  I do not know what these talks will produce but I am hopeful we will find a way forward that achieves significant health insurance reform without expanding government where taxpayers assume all the risk,” said Lincoln.

Lincoln’s audio from yesterday’s call is available in mp3 format at the following website:

http://demradio.senate.gov/actualities/lincoln/lincoln091104.mp3

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