senate

Just when they're starting to roll, the Ottawa Senators are about to get sidetracked, by, of all things, the U.S. presidential election campaign.

Ted Stevens. Guilty.

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Key issues at stake, the powerhouses will play along ?

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The legal system is not a series of tubes -- sorry, Ted.

Quoted: Senator Ted Stevens was indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting income, in charges related to renovations on his home and to gifts he has received.

Love this.

Quoted: Now this is really something. New polling shows that not one but two scandal-plagued incumbent Republicans are seriously in danger of losing their seats -- and to top it off, both are in a state that has historically been a GOP stronghold, Alaska.

Here's another anecdote the press likes to skip over.

Quoted: For a candidate running on character and biography, it is also an awkward time to remember: Mr. McCain abandoned his wife, who had reared their three children while he was in Vietnamese prisons, and he then began his political career with the resources of his new wife's family.

This is kind of ridiculous.

Quoted: While there will be no shortage (I hope, probably ill-advisedly) of coverage of the substantive issues at stake in the upcoming FISA debate, there's a bit of parliamentary procedure I think you need to know about in order to be a more effective citizen lobbyist: the motion to recommit.

A vote in the US Senate fell four votes short of what was needed to restore habeas corpus — the fundamental right of individuls to challenge government detention. Here is the record of the vote on the Cloture Motion to restore Habeas Corpus. Article 4 of the US Constitution states that habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless in cases of rebellion and invasion when the public safety may require it.