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...Internet never lets you escape your past. There are incriminating Facebook photos, e-mail mishaps and, for Al Franken, years and years of comedy footage that takes on new meaning now that the SNL alum has thrown off his Stuart Smalley cardigans in favor of dark suits and Senate-appropriate power ties...
...months after Election Day, Minnesota's State Canvassing Board certified the results of the state's protracted U.S. Senate race on Monday, declaring former comedian and Democratic challenger Al Franken the winner by 225 votes. Franken made an acceptance speech just hours after the board met and the certification put a temporary stamp on the two-month recount. Franken, however, doesn't yet have the election certificate needed to take his seat in Washington, and a lawsuit filed by Coleman threatens to entangle the race in even more months of legal wrangling. (See pictures from the historic Election...
...Coleman's first public appearance here since Election Day - when he asked Franken to refrain from taking the race to a recount but later apologized for the comment - Coleman stood in a room full of supporters in the State Office Building and declared, "While I understand there is a desire by a small number of people to simply move on, something greater than expediency is at stake here ... Sometimes [democracy] is messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the best directive - fairness is." When reporters mentioned the names of Senate majority leader...
...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...
...with the Franken-Coleman contest now likely to be drawn out even further, the freshman class may not be complete for some time. "The actions today by the canvassing board are but the first step in what, unfortunately, will now have to be a longer process," Coleman said Monday. "This process isn't at the end; it is now just at the beginning." The same could be said for the new Senate, which, despite Obama's claims of postpartisan cooperation, is looking a lot like the old dysfunctional...