WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, faces expulsion from the Senate if he wins re-election this week.
Stevens, 84, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history, was convicted in Washington last Monday of failing to report more than $250,000 in renovations and gifts from friends. He returned to Alaska after his trial to resume his re-election campaign and said during a debate Thursday with his Democratic challenger, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, that he would win an appeal of his case.