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COMMENTS: Lonely Days
For political fun to round out the week, NBC's John Yang offered us the lonely figure of Byron Dorgan, the Democratic senator from North Dakota. "Who said Congress cannot act quickly and efficiently?" Yang joked as Webb conducted an entire day of business singlehandedly in all of 27 seconds. Yang explained the parliamentary maneuver to prevent President George Bush from exercising his Constitutional power "to temporarily fill vacancies on his own when the Senate is in recess." That 27-second day is enough to keep the world's most deliberative body in session. "There may be more lonely days for Democratic senators over the Christmas holidays," Yang predicted.
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