Topic: Ted Stevens
Attorney general orders review of Justice Departments prosecution of U.S. senator The Justice Department on Wednesday asked a federal judge to set aside the corruption conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens,R-Alaska, and said it would not seek a new trial.In October a ...
Senators relieved by Stevens' vindication but don't rush to restore his honorFor former Sen. Ted Stevens, legal vindication is not translating into a political one.Stevens' former colleagues, while widely sympathetic to the convicted, defeated and about-to-be-cleared Alaskan, are not rushing to restore ...
On Wednesday, a day after Congress sent him the bill, President Obama signed an earmark-laden $410 billion piece of legislation from last year to keep the government running through September.. We can't have Congress bogged down at this critical juncture in our ...
WASHINGTON A reporter in Chicago asked President-elect Barack Obama, Whats wrong with politics in Illinois? Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat arrested Tuesday on corruption charges, including conspiracy to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Obama, is the latest of several ...
Sen. Ted Stevens (R.-Alaska) was convicted on seven counts of corruption in office last week. Although Stevens faces re-election November 4, there have been calls for him to resign from office. Stevens faced a stiff re-election battle even before his conviction. Aside ...
For now, gloom and doom on Capitol Hill; euphoria over Obama inauguration still on the horizonBefore the inaugural euphoria on Capitol Hill comes the gloom.A lame-duck Congress returned for a week of depressing tasks, displaying none of the soaring spirit that will ...
Aides wept Thursday as Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator ever, bade an emotional farewell, haunted by a criminal conviction which cost him his seat of 40 years.Stevens, 85, who has fought a curmudgeonly one-man crusade on behalf of his remote state ...
Departure of longtime spending leaders unlikely to change Senate muchTwo aging symbols of Congress' penchant for pouring billions into lawmakers' pet projects are stepping aside next year. Stevens is 85 and Byrd turned 91 on Thursday, and they have 90 years in ...
Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens concedes defeat, Democratic winner stakes out conservative terrainAlaska Sen. Ted Stevens conceded defeat Wednesday in a re-election bid shadowed by his federal felony conviction, a bitter end to a four-decade career in which he held a commanding place ...
Democrats edged closer to total dominance in the US Senate after their challenger ended the longest Republican career in the chamber's history by unseating corruption-tainted veteran Ted Stevens.The win by Anchorage mayor Mark Begich left Democrats Wednesday on 58 seats in the ...
