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...Lieberman be a member of that new Senate if he hasn't resigned yet? He won't potentially be sworn in as vice president until Jan. 20, right? A: Yes. Lieberman will be a member of the new Senate for a few days and then he could resign as late as noon on Jan. 20, when, if his ticket wins, he'd become vice president. He's not allowed to hold both jobs at the same time...
Gore and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman were in the midst of a private dinner with their wives at the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel when the networks called the three states. They cheered, finished their dinner and went back to giving phone interviews to radio stations...
Tipper Gore and Lieberman joined in the battle, doing interviews via satellite for Portland, Green Bay and Seattle. Downstairs, the hotel staff had begun to bring out the champagne glasses after Florida went to Gore--but their celebration would prove premature...
...Cairo, where the Mubarak government is once again engaged in its familiar ritual of stealing elections, the Florida contretemps was greeted as a familiar symptom. "People here welcomed the announcement that Bush had won because Joe Lieberman being vice president is not something people here would welcome at all," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "So when it was announced that Bush had in fact not won, many people were joking that they're messing with the election in America as well, because they're very busy doing that here right now. One supporter of an opposition candidate...
...Gore were elected, the Democrats would have control of an evenly-divided Senate, but to get to 50-50 (apparently a net gain of four seats) the Democrats would actually need to win an extra seat because Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's (D-Conn.) replacement would be chosen by Connecticut's Republican governor...