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Following his unsuccessful bid for the UC’s second-in-command, Lee assumed a different kind of political role instead: working for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign...
...chance to meet a number of people who came to the state to campaign on behalf of Obama. When Sen. Richard J. Durbin was in New Hampshire, Lee and a fellow Obama employee were given the task of driving him around the state...
Obama's camp, which raised doubts about the reliability of the Michigan revote plan that Clinton's camp was pushing, has proposed that the candidates split the two states' delegates. On Thursday, former presidential contender Sen. Chris Dodd-who like Clinton had left his name on the Michigan ballot, and who now supports Obama-put out a statement declaring: "The best outcome is to come to an arrangement where the delegates are apportioned fairly between Senators Obama and Clinton, so the Michigan delegation can participate fully in the Denver convention." But Clinton almost immediately rejected that idea, telling reporters...
...testimony, but indicated that she would continue to follow the issue closely and, if warranted, participate in a similar event next year. The $2.1 billion would come from cuts in other federal programs, but the amendment does not specify the sources of the offset. Another amendment, proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 to permit future Congressional action to provide more low-interest loans to college students, also passed in Thursday’s session. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu
...slightest whiff of sexual misconduct means a devastating fall from grace. Of course, the guillotine of public shame is applied quite arbitrarily. Clinton was impeached while his sanctimonious accuser Newt Gingrich cheated on his wife in the cancer ward. Not that this is necessarily a partisan issue, either: Sen. Larry Craig was positively marooned by his Republican Party—presumably because its members find cloacal homosexual activity abominable—while his Louisiana counterpart David Vitter emerged unscathed from an encounter with the “D.C. Madam”. One suspects the Senate was less than eager...