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Here's a question for the Democratic leadership in the Senate.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* Here's a question for the Democratic leadership in the Senate. Were you trying to embarrass your party on January 6, the first real business day of the new Congress? First, after making a lot of noise, you tried--and failed--to show some muscle against attorney-general nominee Alberto Gonzales. And then you failed to keep one of your own, California senator Barbara Boxer, from dragging you into a misbegotten protest of the presidential-election results in Ohio. Siding with a few House members who wanted to challenge the vote, Boxer forced the Senate into a "debate" on the issue. As the "debate" went on, most Democrats looked as if they would rather be anywhere other than the Senate chamber. But two of the party's stars, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack ...
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