Word: xxv
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...weaken Connecticut’s power in the Senate. So Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has decided to let Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As that title might indicate, this is an impossibly important committee, which, according to Senate Rule XXV, deals with everything from United States Archives to the compensation and benefits of all U.S. employees. Reid and the Democrats did revoke Lieberman’s subcommittee chairmanship, but this amounted to what Sen. Patrick J. Leahy called a “slap on the wrist...