House Minority Leader John Boehner and the Republican whip, Rep. Eric Cantor, have notified the White House that Republicans may not participate in the president's bipartisan health care summit unless the ground rules of the meeting are changed.

In a lengthy letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel released Monday night, Ohio's Boehner and Cantor of Virginia balked at the idea of Republicans attending the Feb. 25 event simply to react to Democratic proposals already on the table. "If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate," they wrote.