Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand said this week that she doesn’t regret calling for Al Franken’s resignation from the Senate and that female senators are being blamed for it in a way their male colleagues are not. In an interview ...

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Democrat Al Franken won Minnesota’s disputed U.S. Senate seat as a loss at the state Supreme Court prompted Republican Norm Coleman to concede. “I congratulate Al Franken” on his victory, Coleman said at a news conference outside his home in ...

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The seven-week recount trial in the U.S. Senate election between Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken is over, and the long case has approached its next plateau: post-trial appellate proceedings. The combatants are warily, and somewhat wearily, circling ...

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Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, saying his party "has moved far to the right," announced Tuesday he will seek re-election next year as a Democrat. Specter, a moderate Republican, was one of three senators in his party to support President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus measure. He announced his decision to switch parties in a statement posted on a Pennsylvania politics Web site and confirmed by his office.

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