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From: The Washington Times | August 29, 2009
With the death this week of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, seven seats in the Senate have either opened since the last election or soon will, the most vacancies in the upper chamber in any one year in six decades. Two of the vacancies resulted from the winning ticket of Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the presidential election. The vacancies – and the problems that have emerged as states try to fill them – have focused new attention on efforts to establish a more uniform way of dealing with the problem, perhaps by amending the Constitution. …
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