WASHINGTON — White House said Monday President Barack Obama plans to sign the just passed health bill on Tuesday, and every Congressional supporter of the bill is invited to the ceremony. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a regular briefing that the signing ceremony of the historic bill is ‘likely to be sometime tomorrow (Tuesday).’ ‘Each and every member of the House and Senate that supported health care reform will be invited. I expect that many of them will attend,’ he said. The ceremony was originally planned in the White House south lawn, but the event is to be held in Department of Interior because of rainy weather. The House of Representatives on Sunday night passed the Senate version of the health insurance reform bill and a ‘fix-it’ bill, which contains contents the House would like to change in the Senate bill. The Senate bill, which cleared both chambers, can be signed into law, while the ‘fix-it’ bill is to be taken up by the Senate on Tuesday. The procedure is called reconciliation. The Democrats adopt this procedure to conclude their year-long battle on health reform to avoid a Republican filibuster in the upper […]

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