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In Final Push, Obama Urges ‘Up-or-Down’ Vote on Health

Luke Sharrett for The New York Times

President Obama called for an up-or-down vote on the health care bill on Wednesday.

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and ROBERT PEAR

Published: March 3, 2010

WASHINGTON — President Obama, beginning his final push for a health care overhaul, called Wednesday for Congress to allow an “up or down vote” on the measure, and sketched out an ambitious — and, some Democrats said, unrealistic — timetable for his party to pass a bill on its own within weeks.

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