Sunday, March 21, 2010, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the Health Care Reform Bill which was sent back from the United States Senate for final passage. It was in effect where the rubber met the road in this long and arduous political and emotional journey to the first form of health reform since Medicare was taken on by both chambers and was signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to Social Security legislation. After Medicare’s passage, then president, Lyndon B. Johnson, enrolled former president Harry S. Truman as Medicare’s first participant. Below is a short ten minute look as to just how emotional and passionate the house debate became, before the historic vote eventually passed the bill.
by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on September 18, 2009
Let’s face it, for a United States Senator to yell out ‘you lie!’ during a speech to a joint session of Congress by the President of the United States, there just had to be more to it than it was merely blurted out. Finally, I think we see what actually happened and quite frankly, it’s happened to me… not during a joint session of congress though. It was more like at the morning school bus stop when I was in fourth grade. We were all going to stick up against the bully but when the moment came I was the only one who didn’t get the memo. I still have the scares, I still… Okay, I’ll save that for a different kind of session… I feeeeel you Joe!
September 9, 2009
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Washington, DC
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
As any American who is still looking for work or a way to pay their bills will tell you, we are by no means out of the woods. A full and vibrant recovery is many months away. And I will not let up until those Americans who seek jobs can find them; until those businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive; until all responsible homeowners can stay in their homes. That is our ultimate goal. But thanks to the bold and decisive action we have taken since January, I can stand here with confidence and say that we have pulled this economy back from the brink.
I want to thank the members of this body for your efforts and your support in these last several months, and especially those who have taken the difficult votes that have put us on a path to recovery. I also want to thank the American people for their patience and resolve during this trying time for our nation.
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Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 26, 2009) [2] was the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy was in his eighth full (and ninth overall) term in the Senate. At the time of his death, he was the second most senior member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia, and the third-longest-serving senator of all time. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassinations, and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.Read more...(703 words, 3 images, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)
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