Word: alaska
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...when both Burris and Franken are sworn in, the Democrats will enjoy their largest majority in the Senate since 1979, of 59 seats. The nine other freshmen who are being sworn in Tuesday with no controversy include Mark Begich of Alaska; Kay Hagan of North Carolina; Mike Johanns of Nebraska; Jeff Merkley of Oregon; Jim Risch of Idaho; Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Mark and Tom Udall, cousins from Colorado and New Mexico, respectively; and Virginia's Mark Warner...
...Photos on the site have come from cities all over the world, including London, Beijing, Mumbai, Toronto, Brooklyn, N.Y., and even Wasilla, Alaska...
...only one Republican supported it in a previous vote, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter. Nor is it certain that all of the incoming Democratic senators - many of them more moderate and business friendly, such as Virginia's Mark Warner, Tom and Mark Udall (cousins from New Mexico and Colorado) and Alaska's Mark Begich - will support the measure...
...Barack Obama’s secret adherence to Islam, Maher parried the smears with one of his own, saying, “…You can’t be president if you practice a violent, Middle-Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god, which is why [Alaska Governor] Sarah Palin can’t be president...
...Here we are in a year when we elected our first African-American president and I get to share the stage with four white guys,” said Ifill, who moderated the vice presidential debate between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden...