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U.S. Senate Votes Formal Apology for Slavery

Agence France Presse June 18, 2009.
The resolution apologes for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" of African-Americans.

Senate Votes For Unprecedented Tobacco Controls

Agence France Presse June 11, 2009.
The bill would overturn decades of resistance by the powerful tobacco industry.

Update: New York, Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Gregg Levine, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. January 23, 2009.
We have a winner.

Will Caroline Kennedy Replace Hillary in the Senate?

The Christian Progressive Liberal, Jack & Jill Politics AlterNet: PEEK. December 5, 2008.
It is certainly starting to look that way ...

Ban on HIV+ Visitors and Immigrants in the U.S. is One Step Closer to Being Repealed

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 17, 2008.
After a decade long fight the Senate takes us one step farther from legalized discrimination.

Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Dangerous Court Nominee

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 22, 2008.
An interview with author Silja Talvi about her AlterNet investigative report on Gus Puryear, a Bush court nominee with a villainous past.