Obama healthcare reform

19 March 2010: Barack Obama talks on the phone with a member of Congress while en route with White House assistant Phil Schiliro to a healthcare event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
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19 March 2010: Obama calls a congressional member from the Oval Office to discuss healthcare reform
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20 March 2010: The US president greets the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and her grandson following a meeting with congressional Democrats to discuss the health insurance reform vote
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21 March 2010: Obama listens to Schiliro, assistant to the president for legislative affairs, during a meeting on healthcare in the Oval Office. Katie Johnson, the president's personal secretary, stands in the background
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21 March 2010: Obama holds a lucky charm given to him during the campaign, while on the phone with another Democratic congressional member
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21 March 2010: In between healthcare meetings, Obama plays a game of H-O-R-S-E on the White House basketball court with Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs
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21 March 2010: The president reacts to a BlackBerry message in the Treaty Room office in the private residence of the White House
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21 March 2010: Obama, the vice-president, Joe Biden, and senior staff react in the Roosevelt Room to the passing of the healthcare reform bill
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22 March 2010: The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, congratulates Obama on the House vote before a meeting in the Situation Room
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23 March 2010: Obama embraces the health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, left, and Pelosi after signing the healthcare reform bill in the East Room
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23 March 2010: Obama and Biden wait in the Blue Room before signing the health insurance reform bill into law
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26 March 2010: After signing the healthcare reform bill into law, Obama discusses the Start treaty during a Oval Office phone call with the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev
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