President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to pass a proposed health care overhaul during a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday and later told them: "Now is the time to finish the job."
Making pitches to lawmakers in person and then from the White House, Obama pushed the House of Representatives to move ahead with his top domestic priority. After meeting with Democrats behind closed doors 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 White …
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