Obama to push lawmakers on health care vote

Reported by France 24 on Saturday, 7 November 2009 (on November 7, 2009)

President Barack Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, was to make a rare in-person plea Saturday for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to remake US health care.Obama, who wooed skittish fellow Democrats by telephone Friday, hoped to bring the full persuasive power of the presidency to bear in an 11th-hour push to secure the 218 votes needed to prevail in the House of Representatives. Key facts: US health care bill

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