Al Franken was named by the US Supreme Court as the winner of the very close and hotly contested US Senate seat race in Minnesota, giving the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate – a filibuster-proof majority “at a time of controversial health care reform measures and unprecedented climate change legislation,” reports MinnPost.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 1 July 2009 at 0:48 |
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Tags: Al Franken, climate change legislation, Democrats, filibuster, health care reform, US Senate seat
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