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Alaska Dispatch News
February 6, 2018
The fact of the matter is that the FBI and Department of Justice leadership have been caught involved in serious, unlawful activity. It's so tiresome to watch the media continue to run interference for these rascals. Our own Sen. Ted Stevens was one of their victims, so it's my hope this swamp of vipers getsÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
February 5, 2018
“HB 37 celebrates Susan Butcher's life,” said Sen. Joe Thomas, a Fairbanks Democrat who signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill, during Monday's Senate, ... Frank Murkowski and Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young all voted for the bill. The bill requires employers of 50 or more to grant their employees up toÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 5, 2018
Five days after the Department of Justice announced that it would retry Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the judge in the case all but ripped out ... of high level politicians like former senators Ted Stevens of Alaska and John Edwards of North Carolina, was eager to burnish its once-lofty reputation.
Florida Politics (blog)
February 2, 2018
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson raised $2.4 million during the last quarter bringing his total cash on hand to just over $8 million. Many expect GOP Gov. ... Specifically, the bill amends the Ted Stevens Amateur and Olympic Sports Act to require Olympic amateur athletic governing bodies to establish rules andÃÂ ...
Lakeland Times
February 2, 2018
And, Ellis continued, when then Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was a senior appropriator, Alaska was at the top of the per capita earmark pile - doubling second place, Hawaii - while in 2010, when he was out of office, Alaska came in sixth in per capital earmarks, pulling in a third of what it had previously.
Orlando Sentinel
January 31, 2018
Look at Alaska, which used to get the most earmarked dollars per capita, until Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election, and the state got a fraction of its previous haul. Alaska's needs didn't change; the state simply lost seniority in the Senate. The dominance of political power is part of the reason earmarksÃÂ ...
Bangor Daily News
January 25, 2018
Menendez is the first sitting U.S. senator to face a federal bribery trial in more than three decades, according to The New York Times. The last time the Justice Department tried to convict a sitting U.S. senator was in 2008, when Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was found guilty of lying on financial disclosureÃÂ ...
NJ.com
January 24, 2018
Menendez's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, had argued that the government witnesses were in Washington, as were Menendez's primary residence and his workplace. He pointed to the Justice Department's successful efforts to try former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens in Washington, D.C., rather than his home state ofÃÂ ...
The Columbian
January 24, 2018
Menendez is the first sitting U.S. senator to face a federal bribery trial in more than three decades, according to the New York Times. The last time the Justice Department tried to convict a sitting U.S. senator was in 2008, when Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was found guilty of lying on financial disclosureÃÂ ...
Sentinel & Enterprise
January 21, 2018
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, championed by the late Sen. ... The congressman and senator fought for years to preserve land thousands of miles away; his legacy includes protecting more than 100 acres in Alaska, a state he never ... Ted Stevens of Alaska to pass the act.
Law.com
January 17, 2018
A Washington judge unsealed on Wednesday pages from a U.S. Justice Department criminal discovery guide for prosecutors that was put together in the aftermath of the botched public corruption case against the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,ÃÂ ...
Kenai Peninsula Online
January 8, 2018
Sullivan expressed his pleasure and excitement on the opening of ANWR and credited the success of the final bill to the tireless work of his predecessors that began with Senators Ted Stevens, Frank Murkowski and Congressman Don Young. He also praised the effort of Alaska's senior Senator LisaÃÂ ...
Idaho State Journal
January 7, 2018
Alaska's senior senator, Lisa Murkowski, has accomplished one goal that no other Alaskan senator, despite incredible efforts, ever achieved. Not the longest serving Alaskan senator, the legendary “Uncle Ted” Stevens; not her own father, Frank, during his time in the Senate; not the egotistical andÃÂ ...
webcenter11
December 27, 2017
Sen. Dan Sullivan; (R) Alaska>>"Yeah well, it's good to see you Tom, and Merry Christmas to you and all your viewers. My wife Julie and I and our ... are run at the highest levels, without political bias, without vendettas against any politician, clearly that happened against the late great Senator Ted Stevens.
CNN
December 20, 2017
Washington (CNN) Sen. ... to usher through the same legislation, alongside other Republican giants in Alaska's small delegation: Rep. Don Young and the late Sen. Ted Stevens. .... She now serves alongside Dan Sullivan, the junior senator from Alaska who was also heavily involved in the ANWR fight.
Alaska Public Radio Network
December 19, 2017
And yet, there was Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, proclaiming Dec. 21, 2005 “the saddest day of my life.” Stevens was crushed when he didn't have the votes to keep ANWR in a Defense spending bill. He had attached billions of dollars to the drilling measure to win votes. Billions to help victims of HurricaneÃÂ ...
KTUU.com
December 19, 2017
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Lisa Murkowsi is wearing some Hulk earrings Tuesday in honor of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who was known for wearing superhero ties and would wear a Hulk tie whenever he tried to get ANWR passed. "And when he wore his Hulk tie he meant business," she told CNN.
Fortune
December 18, 2017
He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D-HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to theirÃÂ ...
NPR
December 17, 2017
Senator Ted Stevens would put billions and billions of dollars in these bills to try to make them more palatable. And this one is getting by, even though it remains controversial. But it's wrapped - almost, like, camouflaged - inside a larger controversy. SUAREZ: When environmentalists have joined the battleÃÂ ...
Pacific Northwest Inlander
December 31, 1999
Years ago, deceased former Sen. Ted Stevens and deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy were close friends. They came from opposite ends of the political spectrum — Kennedy, a liberal spokesman and Stevens, a conservative Republican from a big state (Alaska) but a sparse population. Stevens got alongÃÂ ...
Roll Call
December 31, 1999
The late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, as Appropriations chairman, presided over 21 continuing resolutions in fiscal 2001. ... in 2000, however, after Clinton and Senate Appropriations Chairman Ted Stevens of Alaska struck a deal on fishing restrictions intended to protect the endangered Steller sea lion.
Juneau Empire
December 31, 1999
State Senate President Ben Stevens, son of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, was on the payroll of Alaska's largest oilfield service company VECO, receiving $4,000 per month as a “consultant.” Ben Stevens introduced and pushed through several Bills sought by VECO owner Bill Allen. At his trial for bribingÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
December 20, 2017
And yet, there was Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, proclaiming Dec. 21, 2005 “the saddest day of my life.” Stevens was crushed when he didn't have the votes to keep ANWR in a Defense spending bill. He had attached billions of dollars to the drilling measure to win votes. Billions to help victims of HurricaneÃÂ ...
KTUU.com
December 20, 2017
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Lisa Murkowsi is wearing some Hulk earrings Tuesday in honor of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who was known for wearing superhero ties and would wear a Hulk tie whenever he tried to get ANWR passed. "And when he wore his Hulk tie he meant business," she told CNN.
NPR
December 18, 2017
Senator Ted Stevens would put billions and billions of dollars in these bills to try to make them more palatable. And this one is getting by, even though it remains controversial. But it's wrapped - almost, like, camouflaged - inside a larger controversy. SUAREZ: When environmentalists have joined the battleÃÂ ...
Fortune
December 18, 2017
He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D-HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to theirÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 9, 2017
WASHINGTON — As another fevered push to open the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration collapsed on the Senate floor in December 2005, Ted Stevens, then the powerful and wily Republican senator from Alaska, declared it “the saddest day of my life.” At that moment, it lookedÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 7, 2017
Dec. 7, 2007 — ANCHORAGE — The FBI over the last year slapped handcuffs on four former Alaska lawmakers with ties to a major oil field service company, VECO Corp. Three were convicted in federal court of corruption charges and a fourth awaits trial. So, another former legislator connected to VECO,ÃÂ ...
GazetteNET
December 4, 2017
The legal sabotage of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens' 2008 reelection bid by the Justice Department remains a seminal event in recent political history that ... Senator Reid, then majority leader, announced he would schedule a vote to expel Stevens from the Senate, and even before the election Sen. JamesÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
November 30, 2017
The late Sen. Ted Stevens points to Sen. Lisa Murkowski at a press conference May 25, 2004, in Anchorage. Murkowski, appointed by Gov. Frank Murkowski to complete his senate term, was about to face her first election as a U.S. senator. After winning that fall, Murkowski and Stevens had their hopes forÃÂ ...
Inverse
November 20, 2017
Republican Senator Ted Stevens gained infamy in 2006 when he gave his legendarily inaccurate description of the internet: “It's not a big truck.
U.S. News & World Report
November 14, 2017
Republicans shouldn't use Alaska Sen. .... Ted Stevens and several other factors, Murkowski's support wasn't borne out in the ballot booth.
LifeZette
November 8, 2017
On Nov. 1, 2008, Reid issued the statement after Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted on corruption charges. ... "Yesterday's ruling wasn't just a verdict on Senator Stevens — but on the broken politics that has infected ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
November 6, 2017
... and bring more young students into the program, which will be renamed the Sen. ... “This program honors Senator Ted Stevens' legacy of bipartisanship, ... “The Foundation's support of the Senator Ted Stevens Internship ...
webcenter11
November 2, 2017
The program, which will be renamed the 'Senator Ted Stevens Legislative Internship Program', is nearly 30 years old and has hosted 300Â ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
October 6, 2017
Oct. 7, 1992 — Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has succeeded in restoring money for a $25 million supercomputer at the University of Alaska ...
Must Read Alaska (blog)
October 3, 2017
Study: Media ignores Menendez trial but covered Ted Stevens nonstop ... Sen. Stevens was the focus of nearly daily coverage by CNN, which at ... Stevens was the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, (later ...
Washington Examiner
September 27, 2017
CNN in 2008 covered then-Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and his corruption trial six times the amount of coverage it has so far dedicated to the ...
Washington Examiner
September 26, 2017
Halfway through Sen. ... Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who was convicted of making false statements about home repairs ... Abbe Lowell, leading Menendez's legal defense, said last week the senator may testify while arguing jurors ...
Kenai Peninsula Online
September 26, 2017
... River Classic started by U.S. Senator Ted Stevens 25 years ago. ... of the three-day event, a Senate Commerce Committee chaired by Sen.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
He added, “Ted Stevens said, 'I've been waiting to do this since I was in the Air Force.'” (The Alaska senator had been a pilot in the Army's air force, flying transport missions over China during World War II.) During the meeting, Mr. Reid said, Mr. Stevens recounted being tailed by a strange aircraft with noÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
December 31, 1999
In 2005, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, tried to attach oil drilling to a defense authorization bill in the Senate. He was blocked when Cantwell and ...
WJLA
December 31, 1999
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The federal bribery trial of Democratic Sen. ... The last sitting senator convicted of a crime was Ted Stevens of Alaska, ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
Senator Robert Menendez speaks outside federal court after he was indicted on ... allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of their colleague, Minnesota Sen. ... Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) remained in the Senate even after ...
Wichita Eagle
December 31, 1999
The federal bribery trial of Democratic Sen. .... The last sitting senator convicted of a crime was Ted Stevens of Alaska, a Republican found ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
December 31, 1999
Burton grew up in Alaska and worked in the offices of Congressman Don Young and the late senator Ted Stevens, as well as in the executive ...
NorthJersey.com
September 10, 2017
The corruption trial against U.S. Sen Bob Menendez began Wednesday in Newark. ... On a regional level, it's about the fate of New Jersey's senior U.S. senator, ... Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was eventually overturned because ofÃÂ ...
Kenai Peninsula Online
September 6, 2017
While Junior Classic host Sen. ... Classic was followed by the regular Kenai River Classic that was started by the late U.S. Senator Ted Stevens.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
September 6, 2017
TRENTON, N.J. — The start of Democratic U.S. Sen. ... Ted Stevens of Alaska to resign after he was convicted of corruption in 2008. ... Expulsion from the Senate isn't guaranteed if the two-term senator from New Jersey isÃÂ ...
HuffPost
September 5, 2017
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) flees reporters in July who were asking .... She said she's been impressed with her senator, both for taking the time to ... Ted Stevens (R), died in a plane crash two weeks before the primary.
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