President Barack Obama is expected to sign landmark healthcare reforms into law today after a victory in Congress that has both re-energised his beleaguered Democratic party and fired up Republican opponents.
A historic 219-212 vote in the House of Representatives on Sunday night has reinvigorated Mr Obama's presidency with just Senate procedures standing in the way of him making good on his campaign promise to overhaul healthcare.
But the partisan rift that has divided the country also deepened following the vote as 11 state attorneys general threatened legal action to block aspects of the bill and conservative activists said they were raising money on the back of it.
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