Supreme Court overturns Bush v. Gore.
(Yeah, it’s a joke.)
By 4:30 p.m., his 15 cabinet appointees had been vetted, contacted, and brought to Washington, where they were all simultaneously approved by a majority vote in the Senate.
Gore then delivered the first of seven consecutive State of the Union addresses.
“Norm Coleman doesn’t have much of a future in electoral politics. Defeated Presidential candidates sometimes have nine lives, but defeated Senatorial candidates rarely do, and in his career running for statewide office, Coleman has lost to a professional wrestler, beaten a dead guy, and then tied a comedian.”
The 111th Congress convenes today. Out of curiosity, I checked out the web addresses for some of the new House members to see if there was anything up on their webpages yet. It looks like Congress has set up generic, but individualized, pages for them for now. Kind of interesting to look at, since they’ll soon be replaced by more personalized pages. Examples:
Jared Solis (first member of Congress to be openly gay when elected)
Adam Schock (youngest freshman in the current class, 27 years old)
Slightly different: here and here.
But, um, I don’t know what they’re going to do about Ahn Cao, newly elected from Louisiana, because this is what comes up for him. [Update 1/7/09: here’s his page.]
For new senators, webpages all redirect to the same page of the Senate website. [Update 1/7/09: OK, now the new senators’ webpages direct to their own generic but individualized pages.]