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...Justice Department, the "Singing Senators" can finally be declared dead. What might be greeted with much rejoicing in elite music departments is a real blow to Republican clubs and Shriners everywhere who are now scrambling for replacement acts. But the passing of the a cappella group that also included GOP Senators Trent Lott and Larry Craig offers huge upside potential for Orrin Hatch: The Utah Senator was never invited into the quartet, but his dreamy spiritual hymns can now fill the vacuum of the post S-Squared...
...Give 'em Zell: a rash of babies born to Republicans in wake of Jeffords' decision are named Zell in a cheap attempt to lure Georgia Democrat Zell Miller over to the GOP. The clumsy effort will backfire in 2019 as the "Zell vote" consistently goes Democratic in an effort to balm years of psychological damage caused from being stuck with such a name...
...Senator Jim Jeffords is expecting to announce this morning at 9:30 that he is leaving the Republican Party. All day Wednesday, speculation was swirling through Washington as the country's lawmakers waited to hear whether U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords, Republican of Vermont, would part ways with the GOP. The will-he-won't-he reached fever pitch with reports of a 2 p.m. press conference, then waned just slightly with the news that the fiercely independent Jeffords was returning later in the day to his home state...
...does leave the GOP, it is not known whether Jeffords will cast his lot with the Democrats or become an independent. Either way, his desertion spells disaster for Senate Republicans, who will lose control of the chamber and thus the all-important chairmanships of the powerful legislative committees...
...aftershocks of Senator James Jeffords? defection from the GOP are likely to rattle Washington for years. How will his move affect the 2002 congressional elections? Does this shift mean new energy for the Democrats? Or will it reinvigorate conservatives...