President Barack Obama talks to a Member of Congress on the phone in the Oval Office on Sunday. Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro works in the background. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.)
As folks watch the House on C-SPAN, President Barack Obama nails down the final votes needed to pass his health care reform package in the House on Sunday. The vote for passage is expected this evening.
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Chris Geidner is the senior political writer at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found