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Women in the U.S. Senate

A history of women in the United States Senate

More WPA stories about Nebraska by Nebraskans

tenant governor are pushing 1998 Reform Party gubernatorial candidate John Mitchel, who received three percent that year, to run again, Akron Beacon Journal reports... Green, Libertarian, and Reform Party figures joined to call on the Commission on Presidential Debates to be replaced with a group more inclined to invite alternative-party candidates, Washington Times reports... Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT) "is scheduled to headline a major fund-raising dinner for Senate Democrats on Feb. 27 and has also pledged to hit the hustings to campaign for his Democratic colleagues, including some of the party's more embattled incumbents," the Boston Globe reports...The GAO filed suit asking the White House to turn over lists of those attending secret meetings with VP Cheney as the energy policy was formulated. The White House has declared if it fails in the courts and is ordered to hand over the notes it will ask the GAO statute for oversight be declared unconstitutional...Even the most strident partisans in the GOP are beginning to run from Team Bush because it looks as if the White House is covering up something. .

"I've never seen a better example of cash-and-carry government than this Bush administration and Enron" -- South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings (D) in calling for a special prosecutor in the Enron investigation (Washington Times)….Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday "criticized" the Catholic church's "position against the death penalty, saying that Catholic judges who believe capital punishment is wrong should resign" (AP)... Robert Scheer writes that "the president is drunk with the popularity that his war on terrorism has brought, and those sober Democrats and Republicans, who know better, are afraid to wrestle him for the keys to the budget before he drives off a cliff." ...Paul Krugman writes that the war on terrorism is a fiscal "excuse" that provides the Bush administration "a golden opportunity to bury its previous misdeeds" in the budget...Republican Bob Coleman, a newcomer to Illinois politics, is about to launch a series of campaign commercials that use humor to catch voters' attention. One ad shows him trying to speak Polish at a political event. He ends up saying, "My uncle's chicken is dancing in his underwear." Another shows Coleman's frantic attempts to film a commercial while holding a baby. Baby after baby screams as he tries to talk, and the last one vomits on him. The ads end with the tag line, "Coleman for attorney general. A great lawyer, not a great politician."…. American Research Group New Hampshire Republican U.S. Senate primary poll: Rep. John Sununu 44%, Sen. Bob Smith 34%...Garin-Hart-Yang Missouri U.S. Senate poll: Sen. Jean Carnahan (D) 49%, James Talent (R) 44%... David Yepsen writes that Iowa Senate candidate Bill Salier (R) "is ruining [Rep.] Greg Ganske's [R] coronation as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator - Maybe he can't win this primary, but he's emerging as a new leader for many conservatives in Iowa." ….Conservatives upset by Republican Gov. Bob Taft's choice of Jennette Bradley for lieu

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