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 WASHINGTON (AP) - In a private meeting on Capitol Hill and from the presidential podium in the Rose Garden, President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed for House passage of a health overhaul bill and told lawmakers "to rise to this moment" and "answer the call of history."
After the nearly hourlong session, Obama returned to his office and made a public appeal to lawmakers' sense of history. Such opportunities, the president said as the House worked toward a final vote, "come around maybe once in a generation."
"Millions of Americans are watching right now," Obama said in the Rose Garden.
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