February 21, 2008

Delegation Led By Biden Safe After Emergency Landing In Afghanistan

Sens. Joseph Biden, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are safe and unharmed after the helicopter transporting them made an emergency landing in Afghanistan.

"The helicopters transporting the Senate delegation in Afghanistan made an unscheduled landing this morning due to a snowstorm. There were no injuries and all members of the traveling party were safely transported to their destination at Bagram Air Base," said Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander.

Biden is the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, on which Kerry and Hagel also sit. The three are in the region visiting Afghanistan, India, Turkey and Pakistan.

Biden is due to report on his trip before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday.

-JANE ROH

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October 19, 2007

The Comedic Stylings Of Your Elected Officials

Even in the grimmest of times there's plenty to laugh about in Washington, and a number of lawmakers proved that the case this week at the Funniest Celebrity in Washington contest.

Politicians and the reporters who cover them get to be funny on purpose for one night a year with proceeds going to a worthy cause. This year's beneficiaries were VH1's Save The Music Foundation and the Institute of Musical Traditions, and contestants included The Nation's David Corn, the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, sister of 2006 champion Rep. Linda Sanchez.

Wednesday night's winner was Joseph Randazzo of The Onion. No fair, we say, because -- hello -- The Onion. (Also, he lives in New York!) We prefer to think of the first runner-up as the rightful champion: the senior senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter.

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March 28, 2007

John Kerry: Swift Boat This

President Bush has withdrawn the nomination of a major donor to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the 527 group that rocked 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry's ultimately doomed campaign for the presidency. Sam Fox, the CEO and chairman of an equity management company, was Bush's pick to be U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

"'We received word that because of politics some members of the Senate were going to vote against'" Fox, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said in a Bloomberg News report.

Indeed, with three Democratic WH '08 candidates plus Kerry sitting on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fox's nomination was in trouble from the start. The White House informed the committee of its decision just before members were to vote on the nomination.

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