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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House voted to advance debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.
Emerging from a closed-door meeting with the president, Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted approval of the bill later in the day, adding, "We will pass health care reform."
"He came here to say, `This is what we said we would do in the campaign. Let's do it,'" Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said after the meeting.
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