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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Actor Dennis Quaid told lawmakers Wednesday how his newborn twins came close to death after an overdose of blood-thinning medication, the fault of a drug company that did not recall easily confused bottles despite previous problems, he said.

Actor Dennis Quaid says that what is happening in the nation's courts "is no fiction."

The incident occurred last year at a Los Angeles, California, hospital, Quaid told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In The actor also said the "infants nearly died because of a drug company's failure to put safety first."

The panel's hearing focused on the issue of "pre-emption," under which FDA approval guarantees immunity for drug companies against state lawsuits, because federal law supersedes state law.

The Supreme Court is mulling the issue in a Vermont case. Oral arguments are expected in early October.

"I am in the entertainment industry, but what happened to us, and what is happening in the courts of our country, is no fiction," Quaid said in a statement prepared for members of the House panel. "It is all too real. That is why I have decided to speak out and do something."  Watch Quaid say "Baxter's negligence was an accident waiting to happen" Â»

The actor's actual statement was abridged, as he and other witnesses were given a five-minute time limit on remarks.

Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-California, said, "This is exactly the wrong time for the FDA to say, 'Trust us.' As a result of chronic underfunding and weak leadership, FDA's ability to protect the public is plummeting."

He said the agency has believed that state liability helped the agency regulate drugs and devices but has changed its stance under the Bush administration.

In response to Quaid's testimony, the company that made the drugs involved -- Baxter Healthcare -- issued a statement saying human error was to blame, noting that the finding was supported by the California Department of Public Health.

In November, Quaid's 12-day-old twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were undergoing intravenous antibiotic treatment for a staph infection at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Hospital. According to standard procedure, nurses were supposed to clean the infants' IV lines with Hep-Lock, a drug containing a very small dose of the blood thinner heparin, to allow the lines to flow freely.

However, instead of the 10 units of heparin they were supposed to receive, the twins received 10,000 units, 1,000 times the prescribed amount. The babies survived, apparently with no permanent injury, Quaid told members of Congress, although no one knows whether they will show any long-term effects.

The actor grew emotional as he recalled a 41-hour ordeal in which his infants' blood was the consistency of water and their bodies bore bruises from internal bleeding.

"It made me feel that they had survived for a reason ... that maybe they were going to change the world in a little way," he said.

In researching the incident, Quaid told lawmakers he found that the bottles of 10-unit Hep-Lock and 10,000-unit heparin were "virtually indistinguishable." Both drugs are manufactured by Baxter Healthcare.

He also learned that the labels' similarity led to an overdose of infants at an Indianapolis, Indiana, hospital in 2006. Three babies died and three were injured. Four months after that incident, he said, Baxter sent a warning to hospitals regarding the potential for mistakes. Seven months after that, Baxter received permission to change the labels. However, Quaid said, Baxter failed to recall the previous bottles that were in hospitals.

"They recall automobiles; they recall toasters; they even recall dog food," Quaid said. "Although mistakes did occur at Cedars, the overdosing of our twins was a chain of events of human error -- and the first link in that chain was Baxter."

Baxter, meanwhile, said in its statement that its heparin vials "have been used safely more than 100,000 times a day, a fact that contradicts the implication that two of the company's vials are indistinguishable.

"The two hospitals where tragic errors occurred with Baxter's heparin products reported that these were isolated events resulting from a system failure in the hospital along with human and procedural errors, such as not reading the label."

Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, have filed suit against Baxter in state court. The drug company has filed a motion to dismiss the case, relying on the pre-emption argument, Quaid said.

Baxter spokeswoman Erin Gardner said in the statement that the company did not recall the vials because the medication errors were not related to the safety or efficacy of the product, and "Baxter's vials, even before the label enhancement, were better differentiated than other heparin products on the market."

The company said it contacted the Quaids' attorney in March to ask whether the couple would partner with them and medication safety experts on a program aimed at reducing medication errors but had not received a response.

"Baxter is hopeful that it can resolve this litigation and partner together with the Quaids for the beneffit of clinicians and patients rather than continue to litigate this matter in the courts," the statement said.

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Editor's note: On CNN's "State of the Union," host and Chief National Correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country.

Joe Ray, left, says the cost of providing full-time workers with health care is worth it.

PORTLAND, Maine (CNN) -- Joe Ray has no complaints about the economy but plenty of worries about what he sees and hears in Washington.

His company, Free Range Fish & Lobster, processes 8 million pounds of fish a year, plus shellfish and lobsters. A recession means restaurant sales are down some, but that decline is more than offset by the surge in people looking for seafood as they eat more meals at home.

"We're up about 30 percent," Ray said during a tour of the operation along the Portland waterfront.

He says the cost of providing full-time workers with health care is expensive but worth it.

"To keep good employees," he said. "So you don't have to keep changing the flow of people that are coming in and out. It costs money to do that, too."

But when it comes to the debate over national health care reform, Ray sees the price as out of line with what the country can afford right now.  Watch CNN's John King preview Sunday's show from a dock in Maine Â»

"I think I'd rather just be left alone," Ray said. "Just pay my bill and try to deal with it that way."

A fiscal conservative, he has a simple view of President Obama. "Right now, he is just spending, spending, spending, and I just hope it helps the country," Ray says.

Paul Hogan is on the other end of the country's health care tug-of-war

"It is just a crazy system, and it needs to be fixed," said Hogan, a retired attorney who held a party at his Kennebunkport home Wednesday evening to watch Obama's speech to Congress.

He posted notice of his viewing party on the Obama political organization Web site but in the end watched the speech with a half-dozen friends and neighbors. No strangers signed up, as was common at such events during the Web-driven Obama presidential campaign.

"I think it is much harder to get people involved in an issue," Hogan said. "I think there are lots of people who will get involved every two years or every four years and will talk to their neighbors for elections."

Maine is an interesting stage in the health care debate for a number of reasons. Consider just these two:

â¢ The decline in support for Obama's handling of health care has been pronounced among Americans who consider themselves political independents, and in Maine, nearly four out of every 10 voters is "unenrolled" or independent of any political party.

In the latest CNN polling, for example, 45 percent of all Americans disapproved of how Obama is handling his job as president. Among independents, his disapproval rating was 53 percent.

And specifically on health care, 44 percent of all Americans approve of Obama's handling of the health care issue, while 53 percent disapprove. Among independents, only 33 percent approve of the president's handling of health care, while 61 percent disapprove.

â¢ Maine's two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, are among the handful of realistic Republican targets as the White House tries to get at least modest GOP support. Snowe, in particular, has a crucial voice at the moment because of her seat on the Senate Finance Committee.

We visited Snowe's Portland office the morning after the president's speech, and it was clear that she was getting mixed advice.

"No gov't h c.," an office worker scribbled on a legal pad as she took one of the dozens of morning calls.

"Supp Publ Opt," is another notation made during a call a few minutes later, shorthand for supporting the public option that Obama and most Democrats would prefer to compete with private insurers.

Snowe is skeptical of the public option and has been trying to negotiate an alternative with the White House and colleagues on the Finance Committee. Collins, usually described as slightly more conservative than Snowe, is even more skeptical of such an expanded government role.

In the end, though, those who know the state's independent politics well say that both senators have a lot of leeway despite the high stakes and high emotions of the health care debate.

"Generally, what people in Maine vote for is what works" is how Angus King, who was elected to two terms as governor as an independent, describes the state's less ideological politics. "I would call it pragmatism. ... They seem more interested in getting things done than necessarily lining up in a partisan way."

Speaking specifically of Snowe and her prominent role at the moment in health care talks, King said, "She is the winningest politician in Maine history. She is enormously popular, and I think she can do whatever she wants."

The former governor says that because independents are by definition a varied group, he sees no one reason Obama's standing among these voters on the health care issue has dropped. For some it is probably worries about the costs; others perhaps are disappointed the president has not had more early success delivering on his promise to change Washington.

"I think people are going to say, 'OK, what's working and what's happening down there?' " said King, an Obama supporter. "This health care thing is very important. Not only important substantively but symbolically.

"Can he lead? Can he put something across the line? Is he tough enough?"

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(CNN) -- Mammoth cruise ships can be difficult to get around, even in the best of circumstances. In the worst -- which is how one might describe the situation aboard the listing Costa Concordia -- they are near impossible.

Yet even before the sun rose Monday, about 120 rescue personnel were out in or around the liner that hit rocks near Tuscany and rolled spectacularly on its side.

They were in a race against time, and in a battle with numerous challenges, to try to save survivors or at least recover the bodies of the passengers and crew members who are still missing.

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The search was temporarily suspended by noon Monday, after authorities said the vessel had begun to sway, making it dangerous for the crews. But it resumed a short time later, despite a forecast calling for increasingly strong winds that Coast Guard spokesman Filippo Marino said had rescuers worried.

They are "working in very, very bad conditions," said Luciano Roncalli of Italy's national fire service. "It's cold, of course. It's dark during the day and the night. ... It's really, really dangerous."

Authorities have said that at least six people died after the Costa Concordia hit rocks Friday night off the tiny island of Giglio, where nighttime temperatures have recently dipped below freezing.

A total of 29 people -- four crew members and 25 passengers -- are still unaccounted for from the listing cruise ship, Italian coast guard chief Marco Brusco said Monday, according to Italy's ANSA news agency. That figure includes two of the 120 Americans who were aboard the ship, the U.S. Embassy in Italy said.

Now turned on its side, the ship is roughly half-submerged. Rescuers hope is that any survivor has found refuge above water, or perhaps in an air pocket, and can be brought out alive.

"There could still be people locked into compartments ... where they can't physically move because of the twisting of the metal," said Butch Hendrick, president of the diving safety company Lifeguard Systems.

In its current state, the Costa Concordia resembles a dark, convoluted cave -- with its countless nooks and crannies and few ways to easily escape. Six underwater cave rescue divers are working among the rescue personnel.

The divers are likely equipped with twice as much oxygen as regular scuba divers, have a guideline nearby in case they need help finding a way back to safety, and have knives and whatever lights they can carry or wear, said Robert Laird, a co-founder of the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery group.

Still, whatever equipment and precautions they take, "what they are doing is extremely difficult," he said.

"If you do not have the right frame of mind to deal with being in the dark and in tight closed spaces, then you're (in trouble)," said Laird, who has dived in many caves and ships, though neither he nor his group are involved in the Italian operation.

Unlike open water divers, these divers don't have the luxury of coming up for air anytime they want, and they can't count on the help of sunlight.

Laird said he expects that, besides being pitch-black, the water in the ship teems with debris.

"They could swim right by a dead body and not even see it," Laird said.

Rescuers are navigating a seeming labyrinth.

The Concordia is practically a skyscraper in two directions: 17 decks high and 951 feet long.

Emergency personnel are aiming to look into 1,500 cabins and all around the ship's many other public spaces, including eight bars, five restaurants, four swimming pools, a casino and more. Hendrick, a veteran of many such rescue dives, estimated it could take a couple of weeks for the whole ship to be checked.

"It's enormous," said Richard Bordoni, another member of the Italian national fire corps. "They have to stay safe, and it takes them a long time to go down a corridor."

Late Sunday, the cruise line said the ship's captain may have made "significant" errors leading to the wreck and subsequent rescue effort.

"The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and the captain's judgment in handling the emergency appears to have not followed standard Costa procedures," Costa Cruises said in a statement.

Authorities told ANSA that the captain, Francesco Schettino, has been detained for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship while passengers were still on board.

Speaking on Italian television, Schettino insisted the rocks were not marked on his map.

"On the nautical chart, it was marked just as water," Schettino said, adding that the ship was about 300 meters (1,000 feet) from shore.

But the Italian coast guard insisted that the waters where the ship ran aground were well-mapped. Local fishermen say the island coast of Giglio is known for its rocky sea floor.

"Every danger in this area is on the nautical chart," Coast Guard Capt. Cosimo Nicastro said. "This is a place where a lot of people come for diving and sailing. ... All the dangers are known."

Survivors recounted a frantic rush by passengers to get on lifeboats, while the crew appeared helpless and unable to cope.

"It was the Marx brothers, watching these guys trying to figure out how to work the boat," said passenger Benji Smith, recounting how he made his own rope ladder to save himself and his wife. "I felt like the disaster itself was manageable, but I felt like the crew was going to kill us."

Compounding the evacuation problems was that only one side of the boat's lifeboats was available, as the ship was listing.

Passenger Laurie Willits, from Ontario, Canada, said some lifeboats on the higher side got stuck, leaving people suspended in mid-air amid the sounds of children crying and screaming.

"It was so crowded, and there was no room for us," said Brandon Warrick, who was sailing with his siblings. "It was just bad, like mad scrambles to get into the lifeboats. Nobody followed any procedure."

Many questions remain: Why was the ship -- with about 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew members -- so close in to shore in an area where the seabed is pockmarked with rocks? What happened in the minutes after the ship ran aground? Why was no "mayday" distress signal sent?

"Looking at the pictures of the damage, it almost looks as if they saw it at the last minute, and they tried to swing the ship to the right to miss," said Chris McKesson, professor of naval architecture at the University of New Orleans.

Whatever happened to cause the crash, what's happening now to deal with its aftermath -- and, ideally, get to those still on board -- is now the focus. Those rescue crews have to deal with not just myriad logistical difficulties, but also physical and mental challenges.

Emergency personnel in the open-air part of the ship need ropes to get around, because the floor has become the wall in most cases. Whether they are rappelling or swimming, doors may have to be opened upward, not the standard way, given the position of the ship.

"The doors are very heavy, and the windows are very thick, so it's quite difficult to break them," said Roncalli of the national fire service.

Making one's way around without light and where everything is turned on its side can test even the toughest person's mental makeup.

Laird, of the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery group, notes that many cave diver deaths "are attributed to panic." Even those not underwater face situations in which even a small slip-up can be life threatening, he said.

Despite such challenges, Roncalli vowed that rescue personnel were prepared and intent on continuing their mission as long as necessary.

"They keep on working until we are sure that no person is missing," he said. "The conditions are very tough, but we can manage it."

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text: whole

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text: of

text: the

text: Italian

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text: corps

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text: to

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text: it

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text: corridor

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text: vessel

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text: captain

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text: sailing

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text: dangers

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text: boat

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text: like

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text: crew

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text: evacuation

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text: the

text: ship

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text: Laurie

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text: Ontario

text: Canada

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text: higher

text: side

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text: ship

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text: crew

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text: rocks

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text: minutes

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text: ship

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text: distress

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text: pictures

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text: damage

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text: last

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text: ship

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text: right

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text: naval

text: architecture

text: at

text: the

text: University

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text: New

text: Orleans

text: Whatever

text: happened

text: to

text: cause

text: the

text: crash

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text: deal

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text: ideally

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text: to

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text: still

text: on

text: board

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text: now

text: the

text: focus

text: Those

text: rescue

text: crews

text: have

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: not

text: just

text: myriad

text: logistical

text: difficulties

text: but

text: also

text: physical

text: and

text: mental

text: challenges

text: Emergency

text: personnel

text: in

text: the

text: open

text: air

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: ship

text: need

text: ropes

text: to

text: get

text: around

text: because

text: the

text: floor

text: has

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text: the

text: wall

text: in

text: most

text: cases

text: Whether

text: they

text: are

text: rappelling

text: or

text: swimming

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text: may

text: have

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text: standard

text: way

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text: position

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text: the

text: ship

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text: the

text: windows

text: are

text: very

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text: 's

text: quite

text: difficult

text: to

text: break

text: them

text: said

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text: of

text: the

text: national

text: fire

text: service

text: Making

text: one

text: 's

text: way

text: around

text: without

text: light

text: and

text: where

text: everything

text: is

text: turned

text: on

text: its

text: side

text: can

text: test

text: even

text: the

text: toughest

text: person

text: 's

text: mental

text: makeup

text: Laird

text: of

text: the

text: International

text: Underwater

text: Cave

text: Rescue

text: and

text: Recovery

text: group

text: notes

text: that

text: many

text: cave

text: diver

text: deaths

text: are

text: attributed

text: to

text: panic

text: Even

text: those

text: not

text: underwater

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text: situations

text: in

text: which

text: even

text: a

text: small

text: slip

text: up

text: can

text: be

text: life

text: threatening

text: he

text: said

text: Despite

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text: challenges

text: Roncalli

text: vowed

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text: rescue

text: personnel

text: were

text: prepared

text: and

text: intent

text: on

text: continuing

text: their

text: mission

text: as

text: long

text: as

text: necessary

text: They

text: keep

text: on

text: working

text: until

text: we

text: are

text: sure

text: that

text: no

text: person

text: is

text: missing

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: conditions

text: are

text: very

text: tough

text: but

text: we

text: can

text: manage

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question: what is practically a skyscrapper

answer: The Concordia

text: The Concordia

question: When was the search suspended?

answer: by noon Monday,

text: by noon Monday,

question: What length is the boat?

answer: 951 feet long.

text: 951 feet long.

question: what did the diving expert say

answer: "There could still be people locked into compartments ... where they can't physically move because of the twisting of the metal,"

text: "There could still be people locked into compartments ... where they can't physically move because of the twisting of the metal,"

question: What is the size of the concordia?

answer: 17 decks high and 951 feet long.

text: 17 decks high and 951 feet long.

question: What is the reason for the suspension?

answer: the crews.

text: the crews.

question: How long could the operation take?

answer: a couple of weeks

text: a couple of weeks

question: the rescue operation resumed despite what

answer: a forecast calling for increasingly strong winds

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(CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton on Thursday sharpened her attacks on Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama as she faces what even her supporters admit are must-win situations in Texas and Ohio in the weeks ahead.

At a campaign stop at a General Motors Corp. plant in Youngstown, Ohio, the senator from New York accused Obama of caving in to special interests.

"My opponent says that he'll take on the special interests," she said. "Well, he told people he stood up to the nuclear industry and passed a bill against them. But he actually let the nuclear industry water down his bill -- the bill never actually passed."

Clinton was referring to a 2006 bill that Obama drafted after an Illinois nuclear power plant was found to have released radiation into surrounding groundwater.

Obama's original bill would have required power plants to notify the public and government officials when any radiation was released, but subsequent versions had less stringent reporting requirements, The New York Times reported. The bill was never voted on by the full Senate.

Clinton also accused Obama of supporting "billions of dollars of breaks for the oil industry" by voting for an energy bill she opposed and said he did not support the workers of a Maytag Corp. plant that closed in his home state of Illinois.  Watch Clinton attack Obama Â»

Reacting to Clinton's charges, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said his candidate "doesn't need any lectures on special interests from the candidate who's taken more money from Washington lobbyists than any Republican running for president."

"Sen. Clinton may have said that attacks and distortions are the 'fun' and 'exciting' part of the campaign, but they're exactly what everyone else in America is tired of," Burton said.

In recent days, Clinton has challenged Obama's ability to deliver on his rhetoric.

"There's a big difference between us -- speeches versus solutions, talk versus action," she said.

"Speeches don't put food on the table. Speeches don't fill up your tank or fill your prescription or do anything about that stack of bills that keeps you up at night."

Her remarks in Ohio echo statements she made a day earlier in McAllen, Texas, when she said, "I am in the solutions business. My opponent is in the promises business."

Clinton was set later Thursday to hold events in Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. Obama was to be in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, and had no public events scheduled.

CNN contributor and Clinton supporter James Carville said the senator must do well in the March 4 Ohio and Texas primaries if she is to stop Obama's momentum.

Carville said he thought Clinton could still win the nomination.

"You know, this thing is close. Not all the Democrats have been heard from. ... If anybody can do this, I think she can," said Carville, a major force behind President Clinton's successful 1992 campaign.

Clinton's aggressive stance may be in reaction to Obama's momentum after he won eight contests in a row -- including victories by wide margins in Tuesday's primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.  Watch how the so-called Potomac primaries put Obama on a roll Â»

In those contests, Obama also outpolled Clinton among demographic groups she had carried earlier -- women, lower-income voters and Latinos. Clinton is banking on those groups to carry her to victory in Texas and Ohio.

The wins in the Potomac primaries gave Obama a lead over Clinton in the delegate count for the first time -- 1,253 to 1,211, according to CNN calculations.

"In my neighborhood, you know, you had to win games if you wanted to brag," said Jamal Simmons, a Democratic strategist and Obama supporter. "And I think right now, Barack Obama is ahead in delegates. He's ahead in states. He's ahead in the popular vote. He's winning.

"Sen. Clinton has got to win some of these contests, you know, to get to the finals."

Neither Clinton nor Obama is likely to pick up the 2,025 delegates needed to win the nomination outright before the primary season ends in June, mainly because Democrats divvy up each state's delegates in proportion to the candidates' share of the popular vote.  Watch an outlook of the Democratic race Â»

The Democratic nomination likely will be decided by the roughly 800 superdelegates, which include party officers, elected officials and activists.

Obama's camp argues the superdelegates should support the candidate with the most popular support, as indicated by a majority of pledged delegates going into the convention.

Clinton's campaign, on the other hand, says the superdelegates should support the candidate they think will be the best nominee in the general election as well as the best president.  Watch how the campaigns are fighting for superdelegates Â»

MoveOn.org, an influential liberal activist group, on Thursday said it would launch a petition drive calling on the superdelegates not to go against the popular vote.

"The worst thing for the party and democracy is if all these new voters feel like the nomination was brokered in a backroom somewhere. The superdelegates have got to let the voters decide," MoveOn.org Executive Director Eli Pariser said in a statement.

MoveOn.org has endorsed Obama.

In a possible indication that Clinton is going to fight for every delegate, her camp on Thursday announced that daughter Chelsea Clinton would be dispatched to Hawaii to campaign before the state's primary Tuesday.  Watch how each campaign is fighting for delegates Â»

However, Chelsea Clinton may face an uphill battle there since Hawaii is Obama's native state.

Bill Clinton on Thursday was scheduled to campaign in Wisconsin, which also holds its primary Tuesday.

Recent polls in that state have shown a tight race between the two Democrats. A Strategic Vision survey conducted February 8 through Sunday finds Obama ahead of Clinton 45 percent to 41 percent, a lead outside the poll's margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Carville said Clinton could recover from a loss in Wisconsin.

"It certainly would be preferable for her to win Wisconsin, but I don't put it in the same category as I would put Texas and Ohio on March 4," he said. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Peter Hamby and Chris Welch contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Disgraced former NFL star Michael Vick declared that "I am not the bad person or the beast I've been made out to be" in a letter to a judge asking for leniency.

Michael Vick wrote he was "forever a changed man."

"I have been talked about and ridiculed on a day to day basis by people who really don't know Michael Vick the human being. They only knew the football player which is unfair," Vick said in a handwritten letter released this week.

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced Vick on Monday to serve 23 months in prison for financing a dogfighting ring and helping to kill pit bulls that did not fight aggressively.

Vick wrote the judge that he had accepted responsibility for his actions, would pay restitution and never again use "a single dollar that I have earned for anything but to help people."  Read letters from Vick, his mom, sports stars Â»

The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback said he grew up not knowing the severity of the crime of dogfighting and asked Hudson for "a second chance."

Other letters supporting Vick were sent by his mother, his seventh-grade teacher and children he had met since becoming a star and one of the NFL's most highly paid players.

Brenda Vick Boddie said her son fell victim to friends who took advantage of Vick's inability to "say no."

"PLEASE Your HONOR give my baby Michael another chance. [H]e's never been in trouble with the law before, PLEASE! PLEASE! one more chance," she pleaded in her own handwritten letter.

Former Falcons teammate Warrick Dunn, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and two sporting legends -- former home-run king Hank Aaron and former two-time boxing heavyweight champion George Foreman -- also wrote letters on Vick's behalf. E-mail to a friend

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question: Michael Vick wrote a letter to the judge seeking what?

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question: What team does Michael Vick play for?

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question: Vick was sentence to how long in prison?

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