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SENATOR PATRICK J. LEAHY, Democrat of Vermont, after taking the oath of office from Vice President Dick Cheney, who last year addressed him with an expletive...
...Senate vote certifying the victory of George W. Bush in the presidential election. California Democrat Barbara Boxer dissented because of voting problems in Ohio...
...political needs are fundamentally different from those of laid-off Detroit factory workers. Both groups need better schools for their children, legislation to ease the hardships imposed by a changing world economy and a strong, government-administered plan for Social Security. But the former votes Republican and the latter Democrat, primarily thanks to the issue of abortion...
...self-regulated group created by the gaming industry, and is recommended only for players ages 17 or older. Yet there is no law preventing retailers from selling Mrated games--including other hot titles like Halo 2, Half-Life 2 and Doom 3--to kids. Now the Governor of Illinois, Democrat Rod Blagojevich, is trying to do something about that. Outraged by a news report about JFK Reloaded, a game available for download from an overseas firm, in which players try to assassinate President Kennedy, Blagojevich plans to propose two bills this month that would make it a misdemeanor, punishable...
...Montana's double-marked ballots With control of the state legislature hinging on a three-way contest in Lake County, Democrat Jeanne Windham and the Constitution Party's Rick Jore wound up in a 1,559-to-1,559 tie. But those totals included seven ballots marked for both Jore and the Republican also-ran--votes that recount officials awarded to Jore. The Montana Supreme Court last week threw out "one or more" of the double-marked ballots, thus handing victory to Windham and the statehouse to the Democrats. --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Sandeep Kaushik and Jeffrey Ressner