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Obama signs landmark health bill into law

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Edited on Tue Mar-23-10 11:00 AM by kpete

Source: MSNBC

Obama signs landmark health bill into law
President, Democratic allies head to Interior Department for celebration

updated 8:56 a.m. PT, Tues., March. 23, 2010

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama capped a yearlong political drama Tuesday, signing into law a landmark health care reform bill that had been seen as impossible just two months ago.

The president said the law "will set into motion what a generation of Americans have fought for."

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With Victoria Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in the audience, Obama took note of the long battle to bring the health overhaul measure to his desk. "He was confident we would do the right thing," the president said of the former lawmaker.

"We are not a nation that does what's easy ... we are a nation that faces its challeges and faces its responsibilities."

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35999823/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

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