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March 4, 2010

Obama Makes Final Push on Health Bill

Stolberg & Pear, New York Times

President 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 weeks.

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Senator Mitch McConnell criticized Mr. Obama's request.

“I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform,” Mr. Obama said...

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