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| Obama: "This Is Our Moment to Deliver" |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2009
Updated at 2:01 p.m. Eastern time
President Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would have let federally subsidized health care plans cover abortions.
The president spent the morning on Capitol Hill, making a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation, and later spoke from the White House Rose Garden about the importance of the bill.
Mr. Obama said members of the House and Senate have worked diligently and constructively for months to craft legislation. "They brought us closer than we have ever been to passing health insurance reform on behalf of the American people," he said. "Now's the time to finish the job.
"This is our moment to deliver," he said. "I urge members of Congress to rise to this moment. Answer the call of history and vote yes for health insurance reform for America."
President Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would have let federally subsidized health care plans cover abortions.
The president spent the morning on Capitol Hill, making a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation, and later spoke from the White House Rose Garden about the importance of the bill.
Mr. Obama said members of the House and Senate have worked diligently and constructively for months to craft legislation. "They brought us closer than we have ever been to passing health insurance reform on behalf of the American people," he said. "Now's the time to finish the job.
"This is our moment to deliver," he said. "I urge members of Congress to rise to this moment. Answer the call of history and vote yes for health insurance reform for America."
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