Senate Democrats Move Toward Seating Franken
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Washngton - It's no joke: Senate Democrats are moving toward letting
comedian Al Franken join the chamber while Republican Norm Coleman's
election lawsuit is pending.
"We're going to try to seat Al Franken," Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters on Wednesday, a few hours before
he
posed with Franken for photos just off the Senate floor. "There's not
a question in anyone's mind, an assertion by anyone, that there's
been
any fraud or wrongdoing in this election."
Coleman's lawyers are challenging the results of the election and
the re-count in a trial set to begin in state district court on
Monday. A three-judge panel that will hear the case is considering
Franken's argument to dismiss it altogether.
Franken finished the re-count ahead by 225 votes. But Coleman's
campaign said it will push for a review of all 12,000 absentee
ballots
that were not counted in the race. Coleman's attorneys said the new
proposal could bring as many as 7,000 ballots to the race.
Reid did not say when Franken would be seated provisionally, but
he said the two were meeting to hash out the agenda and Franken's
committee assignments.
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