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To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (493676)	11/16/2003 7:06:09 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Kennedy Vote Stumble Leaves Senators Gasping Hard-drinking Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy appeared to be so confused on the Senate floor last week that he prompted "audible gasps" from his colleagues by mistakenly voting for two pieces of legislation he was known to oppose - only to have his votes corrected later. "The Senate chamber was filled with audible gasps last Tuesday when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the pro-choice champion, clearly voted 'yes' on final passage of the bill to ban partial-birth abortion," columnist Robert Novak reported Sunday. Kennedy also botched his vote on a Democratic-backed amendment to require partial Iraqi repayment of U.S. reconstruction aid by inadvertently siding with the White House. The fumble required the intervention of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who had to explain what happened to Kennedy and get him to change his vote. Asked if the top Massachusetts liberal was "slipping a little bit," Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., blamed Kennedy's stumbling on the sometimes confusing language used in the legislative process. "I suspect that he just walked on to the floor and thought that he was voting on the final question as opposed to whether [the bill] was going to be tabled or not," Sen. Corzine told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. Corzine's explanation notwithstanding, no other senator seems to have had a problem figuring out how to vote.

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