Obama Signs the Health Care Bill
Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
President Obama puts pen to paper. "With all the punditry, all of the lobbying, all of the game playing that passes for governing in Washington," Obama said, "it's been easy at times to doubt our ability to do such a big thing, such a complicated thing, to wonder if there are limits to what we as a people can still achieve."
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