Organized by activist group MoveOn.org, citizens planned to rally on 10/11 in support of a congressional override of President Bush’s veto of an expansion to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program-known in California as Healthy Families. The Senate passed the bill with the two-thirds majority needed to withstand a veto. The bill goes before the House of Representatives on 10/18 for an attempted override vote.

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