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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 04 > Obama calls for final vote on health care bill

Obama calls for final vote on health care bill

President avoids using ‘reconciliation,’ but it’s clear he expects Dems to put tactic into play

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear / The Bulletin
March 4, 2010

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, beginning his final push for a health care overhaul, called Wednesday for Congress to allow an “up or down vote” on the measure, and sketched out an ambitious — and, some Democrats said, unrealistic — timetable for his party to pass a bill on its own within....

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