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 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama made his case Saturday for House passage of a health care overhaul and told lawmakers during a visit to Capitol Hill that it was time "to answer the call of history."
Making pitches to lawmakers in person and then from the White House, Obama pushed the House to move ahead with his top domestic priority. After meeting with Democrats privately for nearly an hour, Obama returned to his office and appealed to lawmakers' sense of history, telling them such opportunities "come around maybe once in a generation."
"Millions of Americans are watching right now," Obama said in the Rose Garden.
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