Congress intervenes to keep Florida woman alive
In an effort to keep alive a severely brain-damaged Florida woman, federal lawmakers worked out a bill on Saturday aimed at restoring her feeding tube and pushing the right-to-die case back into court.
The deal for the bill, which could be approved in the next two days, was reached 24 hours after doctors -- acting on a Florida court order -- removed the feeding tube that has kept Terri Schiavo alive for the past 15 years.
The White House said late on Saturday President Bush was cutting short a vacation in Texas to return to Washington in hopes of signing the bill.
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