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Sen.-elect Franken visits Capitol Hill

Jul. 6, 2009
The former comedian, who will give Senate Democrats a 60-vote supermajority, meets with the Senate majority leader. He will be sworn in Tuesday. Al Franken -- the former comedian who won a bruising, eight-month vote recount and court battle in Minnesota -- arrived on Capitol Hill on Monday, a day...
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Minnesotans want Senate race over

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Reid: Senate prepared to seat Franken

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Franken goes to D.C. -- for inauguration

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Al Franken, challenging Norm Coleman to be one of Minnesota's U.S. senators, is in Washington with his hoped-for colleagues, but only for the inauguration.

Senate Democrats agree to seat Burris

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Leading Senate Democrats Monday said Roland Burris, a former attorney general from Illinois, is to be certified as the state's newest U.S. senator.

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Dems name campaign building for Daschle

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Capitol Hill faces new anthrax scare

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Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler