Americas

Home page

Americas

President Obama addresses Congress on Healthcare Reform

28 January 2010 22:42 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ziya Agazade â€“ APA. President Barack Obama told lawmakers during his State of the Union address to remain steadfast on path to healthcare reform, APA reports citing ABC news agency.
"Hereâ€™s what I ask of Congress, though: Do not walk away from reform," the president said Wednesday night in his address to the nation, delivered on the House floor.
"Not now. Not when we are so close. Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people," he said, to a standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans.
He did not, however, offer a blueprint for how to move forward with health care reform after momentum to pass a final bill has sputtered and stalled in Congress.
The pleading was a far cry from what many Democrats once expected to hear from the president on health care during his first State of the Union address.