Word: dakotas
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...Democrats will be getting the same measures through the Senate, where the incoming majority leader, Harry Reid, will have only a one-vote majority and the Republicans will have the procedural power to gum up his agenda. Reid discovered just how slender his majority will be when South Dakota Democrat Sen. Tim Johnson was rushed to the hospital on Dec. 13 with a brain hemorrhage. (He remains in critical condition...
...York Times op-ed that uses a McCain spokesman’s quote out of context to imply that Senator McCain opposes abortion in all cases. However, the progressive watchdog group Media Matters points out that although the spokesman said Senator McCain would have signed the South Dakota abortion bill, the spokesman continued to say that the Senator would have taken steps to see that “exceptions of rape, incest, or life of the mother were included” in the bill. Once again, McCain stakes out a clearly defined position on a complex and controversial issue...
...sudden illness of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson sent everyone in Washington into a frenzy. With the possibility that Johnson might be incapacitated and his replacement named by a Republican governor, the Senate might become evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, with Vice President Dick Cheney breaking the tie. Everyone wants to know: Will Republicans make a play to seize control of the Senate? But the better question is this: Why would they possibly want...
...incapacitation of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has put all eyes in Washington on what is normally a little-noticed Senate vote now scheduled for Jan. 4. It is called the "organizing resolution," and is the bit of internal housekeeping that determines how committee memberships will be allotted between the two parties, as well as who will get to serve as chairman and ranking members of each of the panels. These resolutions traditionally stand until the next Congress, even if the makeup of the chamber shifts to put the other party in the majority, which is why precedent would seem...
Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota was rushed into emergency brain surgery Wednesday to stop the bleeding from what doctors call a congenital arteriovenous malformation. How well he will recover will depend a lot on what happens in the next 24 to 48 hours, says Dr. Edgar Kenton, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Neurology...