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Also in attendance was Steven C. Schwadron, chief of staff to Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., who is co-chairman of a congressional committee that is examining ways to reduce or eliminate the Cuban embargo...
According to the Boston Globe, several other state politicians may run for Kerry’s seat, including Democratic representatives William D. Delahunt, Barney Frank ’62 and Stephen F. Lynch...
Maybe the most honest lawmakers Tuesday were the ones who admitted defeat from the start. Massachusetts Democrat Bill Delahunt voted against both bills. "I do not believe that I know what I need to know before casting a vote of such profound consequence," he said. He feared that without a total ban, cloning would be inevitable; but as written, the ban was so broad it might block all kinds of important research. "I believe the issue deserves more than a cursory hearing and a two-hour debate," he said, "and it requires a characteristic which does not come easily...
Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) represents the 10th district of Massachusetts...
Other states have held that dimpled chads may be counted. A famous case involved Congressman William Delahunt, who owes his seat to a Massachusetts judicial court's decision in 1996 to count dimpled chads, giving him a victory in a race in which he had been trailing by more than 200 votes. A Louisiana court refused to count chads in 1984, as did a lower court in Ohio in 1998. But a Texas statute expressly says a ballot can be counted where "an indentation on the chad from the stylus or other object is present and indicates a clearly ascertainable...