Don't Count On The Senate to Throw Out Alaska's Ted Stevens (flag)

www.alternet.org — Letting the felonious Republican senator languish is another path to a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the first 100 days.

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Franken Should Be Seated Until Election Mess Is Resolved: Klobuchar
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... There is, moreover, historical precedent for seating Franken on a temporary basis. In 1996, Mary Landrieu won the Louisiana Senate seat in a hotly contested race. But her opponent, State Representative Woody Jenkins, alleged that massive election fraud had contributed to his defeat. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate agreed to look into the charges but allowed Landrieu to serve in the interim, pending investigation. The Rules Committee ultimately discovered that Jenkins had coached and paid witnesses to testify, thus discrediting his complaints of corruption and securing ...

Franken Should Be Seated Until Election Mess Is Resolved: Klobuchar
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... There is, moreover, historical precedent for seating Franken on a temporary basis. In 1996, Mary Landrieu won the Louisiana Senate seat in a hotly contested race. But her opponent, State Representative Woody Jenkins, alleged that massive election fraud had contributed to his defeat. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate agreed to look into the charges but allowed Landrieu to serve in the interim, pending investigation. The Rules Committee ultimately discovered that Jenkins had coached and paid witnesses to testify, thus discrediting his complaints of corruption and securing ...