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President Barack Obama is making a final push for the health care overhaul as he heads to Capitol Hill to meet with rank and file House Democrats ahead of tomorrow's scheduled vote. Democratic leaders and Obama are focusing last-minute lobbying efforts on two groups of Democrats. They include 37 who voted against an earlier bill, and 40 who voted for it only after first making sure it would include strict abortion limits.
Health care isn't the only reform on President Barack Obama's mind even with a make-or-break House vote Sunday. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama reiterates the need for serious reform in the financial system to prevent another meltdown.
Massachusetts has fined more than a thousand companies more than $18 million for failing to offer insurance to their workers. That's a small fraction of what some business owners fear could happen on a national scale if President Barack Obama signs a sweeping health care overhaul.
State police say a teenager was killed and two others were injured when their pickup truck collided with a tractor trailer on Interstate 95, crossed a grass median and flipped over before stopping. New Hampshire State Police say the vehicle driven by 18-year-old Brandon Petit, of Raymond, N.H., cut in front of a tractor trailer while trying to get off at Exit 1 on Friday evening.
Around 1,500 Massachusetts immigrants and their advocates are heading for an immigration reform rally in Washington, D.C. Fifteen buses are scheduled to leave the Bay State late Saturday for the planned Sunday march at the National Mall.
A bus from Fitchburg will transport some of the city's large Uruguayan population while buses from New Bedford will bring a large Central American group.
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