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This could be the biggest thing in decades for Progressives. For the first time in 31 years a party has a filibuster proof majority. Let's now get a public option on Health care, energy...
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- News Source: United Press International | 5 months agoResidents of northern Minnesota's Iron Range say they know Democrat Al Franken , waiting to be sworn in as Minnesota's new U.S. senator, will do well in the job. Franken spent July Fourth marching in parades in small towns in one of the state's...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months agoNow that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats — at least on paper — have the power to pass whatever bills they want, without a single Republican vote...Franken,...
- News Source: Uinta County News | 5 months agoWhen the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled comedian and satirist Al Franken the winner in the state's eight-month legal battle to fill the U.S. Senate's last vacancy, it was defeated challenger Norm Coleman who unexpectedly had the best zinger...
- News Source: Kuwait Times | 5 months agoJuly 05, 2009 Al Franken's victory in the marathon race to elect Minnesota's second senator gives Democrats control of 60 US Senate seats, the number needed to overcome any Republican attempt aimed at blocking elements of President Barack Obama's...
- News Source: Virginian-Pilot Online | 5 months agoCongress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support. The seating of Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will give Democrats the filibuster-...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months agoRepublican Sen. John Thune says Republican proposals could hit a roadblock in the Senate with the official election of Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota. That would give Democrats a filibuster-ending 60 votes in the Senate. Thune says it's his belief...
- News Source: The Hill | 5 months agoAnd if the Architect of the Capitol (AoC) does its job well, there won’t be much of any trace that Coleman occupied the blue-carpeted maze of offices on the Senate Hart Office Building’s third floor. Cleaning out an office’s nooks and crannies...
- News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | 5 months agoSen.-elect Al Franken is already marching into his new role: He'll participate in six Independence Day parades on Minnesota's Iron Range. The Democrat will be part of parades in Aurora and Gilbert on Friday. And on Saturday, he'll hit parades in...
- News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 5 months agoAfter one of the closest elections in recent history and eight months of protracted legal appeals, Minnesota finally has a new junior senator -- Democrat Al Franken. The race ended officially this week when one-term Republican incumbent Norm Coleman...
- News Source: The Globe & Mail | 5 months agoWashington — From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009 08:41PM EDT H e's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it, enough people voted for him. Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live comedian whose character...
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