WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama, seeking to give new momentum to his languishing health-care legislation, said he would sit down with Republican and Democratic lawmakers this month to exchange ideas on an issue that has deeply divided the parties. With the GOP united against the Democratic bill, Mr. Obama said Sunday he would ask Republicans "to put their ideas on the table." The half-day meeting will be Feb. 25 and broadcast live, the White House said. "I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward," the president told CBS in an interview broadcast Sunday. Since last month's election in Massachusetts, in which Democrats lost the 60th Senate vote they would need to push ahead with legislation without Republican support, Mr. Obama has repeatedly said he was willing to work with Republicans on health care and other issues. His unusual visit to a House GOP retreat in late January, where he took questions in a televised forum, was well received in many quarters.[Read more...]