President Obama delivers a speech on health care to a joint session of Congress
"Here are the details that every American needs to know about this plan," President Obama said at the beginning of his powerful health-care speech to Congress on Sept. 9. It was a sentence that many Americans had been waiting for quite the opposite of much that has preceded it in this raucous debate and he proceeded to lay out the elements of health-care reform that he considers essential. He did this clearly, concisely, using language that was mostly jargon-free a triumph of speechwriting on this mind-numbing issue. It was also a fighting speech. Obama called the talk of...
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