President Obama finally signed the health care bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is considered the most expansive social legislation that has been enacted in several decades. Speaking to an audience of almost 300 people, the President stated,
The bill I’m signing will set in motion reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see. Today we are affirming that essential truth, a truth every generation is called to rediscover for itself, that we are not a nation that scales back its aspirations.
After being interrupted numerous times with cheering, applause, and the occasional standing ovation, he seated himself and signed- left-handed I must add-using 20 pens that he intended to hand out as mementos to a number of people.
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