Senate energy meeting with Obama postponed

A planned meeting Wednesday between President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of senators to discuss energy policy has been postponed, according to White House and Senate aides.

A White House official said the meeting was postponed for scheduling reasons and would take place early next week.

The official did not provide details about the reason the energy meeting was postponed.

But Obama’s Wednesday schedule was altered to accommodate his planned meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the military’s top commander in Afghanistan.

Obama is meeting with McChrystal before deciding whether to fire him for controversial remarks he made criticizing the administration. 

Obama said Tuesday that McChrystal had shown “poor judgment” in criticizing him and his administration’s handling of the war in Afghanistan in a new article in Rolling Stone magazine.

The planned meeting with senators on energy policy follows Obama’s speech last week in which he said the Gulf of Mexico oil spill underscores the need for “clean energy” legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hopes to bring a broad energy bill to the floor this summer.