President Barack Obama took the case for his economic recovery package to corporate America on Wednesday, telling a group of 13 corporate chieftains that he's confident the $825 billion legislation will make it through Congress.

"I'm confident we're going to get this passed," Obama told reporters at the start of his meeting with chief executives in the Roosevelt Room.

Attendees included Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technology Inc. (MU); David Barger, CEO of JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU); Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola Inc. (MOT); John Bryson, CEO of Edison International (EIX); David M. Cote, CEO of Honeywell International Inc. (HON); Debra Lee, CEO, of BET Holdings Inc.; Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox Corp. (XRX); Sam Palmisano, CEO of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM); Antonio Perez, CEO of Eastman Kodak Co. (EK); Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc. (GOOG); Michael Splinter, CEO of Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT); Wendell Weeks, CEO of Corning Inc. (GLW); and Ron Williams, CEO of Aetna Inc. (AET).

"These are people who make things, who hire people; they are on the front lines," Obama said.

-By Henry J. Pulizzi, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-9256; henry.pulizzi@dowjones.com

Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.