Nov 7th, 2009 - The Denver Post
After the nearly hourlong session, Obama returned to his office and made a public appeal to lawmakers' sense of history. Such opportunities, the president said as the House worked toward a final vote, "come around maybe once in a generation."
"Millions of Americans are watching right now," Obama said in the Rose Garden.
"This is why they sent us here—to finally confront the challenges that Washington had been putting off for decades, to make their Reps. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., Steve King, R-Iowa, Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, and Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., climb over a wall as they leave rally against health care reform in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. ((AP Photo/Harry Hamburg))lives better, to leave this country stronger than we found it," Obama said.
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Nov 8th, 2009 - ABC News
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Nov 8th, 2009 - CNN
Washington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives passed a sweeping health care bill Saturday night with a tight vote of 220-215, making it the biggest expansion of health care coverage since Medicare was created more than 40 years ago.
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