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Pelosi: 'Today, We Have the Opportunity to Enroll This Important Legislation to Send to the President'
March 26, 2010Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Leaders, Committee Chairs and newer Members of Congress held an enrollment ceremony in the Rayburn Room of the Capitol this morning to sign the revised Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and send it to President Obama for his signature into law. The House passed the bill last night, which completes Congressional work on health insurance reform, by a vote of 220 to 207; the Senate passed it yesterday afternoon by a vote of 56 to 43. "Good morning. It is with great pride and even more humility that we come together today to enroll this important legislation. In doing so, Congress will act as others before us did to do something very important for the American people, very significant to their daily lives. "Others before us brought forth Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Acts, some of the landmark legislation in our country's history. And today, we have the opportunity in the House to sign this legislation to enroll this important legislation to send to the President of the United States for his signature." Full release.