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Jeffords (I-Vt.), whose abrupt defection from the Republican Party in May 2001 handed control of the Senate to the Democrats for 19 months, will not seek a fourth term in 2006 due to his and his wife's health problems.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is all but certain to press for a rule change that would ban filibusters of judicial nominations in the next few weeks.
Rhode Island Student Reinstated After Flap Over Principal Photos
For the irreverent student with a digital camera and a Web site devoted to exposing the truth, it was the scoop of the century.
Former senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) has moved from Capitol Hill to K Street, joining Alston & Bird as a special adviser in the law firm's legislative and public policy group.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan isn't the only one in town to get himself crosswise with Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). Ask Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).
Everybody leaves the world's most exclusive club sometime, and last night the tribute at the National Building Museum was for a man who had left it most reluctantly -- Democrat Tom Daschle, tossed out of the Senate in November by the good people of South Dakota after an expensive and contentious race.
Florida Revels in Report of Six-Foot Python in Toilet
It has been a good long while since Dave Barry, esteemed chronicler of everything kooky, declared "a worldwide epidemic of snakes in toilets."
A nonprofit organization with close ties to organized labor plans to raise $25 million to $50 million in an elaborate campaign to pressure lawmakers to vote against President Bush's proposal to create personal investment accounts for Social Security reform.
Sen. Harry M. Reid, at times, has had to balance his party's national political agenda against his state's more parochial economic interests.
The most widely carried liberal on radio is a "prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative" who broadcasts from the unlikely locale of North Dakota.
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