“Mr. President, this is a big [expletive] deal,” Mr. Biden whispered, inserting an adjective not used in polite conversation. Later, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, sent out a message over Twitter: “And yes, Mr. Vice President, you’re right.”
For Mr. Obama, the bill is indeed a big deal, one of the high points of his presidency. For the House Democrats in his audience on Tuesday, it was the end of a very trying chapter, and a knowing chuckle spread across the room when Mr. Obama remarked that many had “taken their lumps during this difficult debate.”
“Yes we did!” Representative Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York, burst out — a riff on Mr. Obama’s campaign slogan, “Yes we can.” The crowd, including the president, broke up laughing.
David M. Herszenhorn contributed reporting.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: March 25, 2010
A headline and an article on Wednesday about President Obama’s signing the health care overhaul into law misstated the number of pens he used. It was 22, not 20. (The president handed out 19 as mementoes, kept one for himself and set two aside to be archived.) The error was repeated in a caption on the front page.
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