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To: PROLIFE who wrote (384579)	4/2/2003 10:56:03 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 769667

yeah i know... Kerry's the no-show guy she loves.. But why ? What does he stand for .. other than a tv camera? I've been asking this same Q for several yrs, nobody, even here in the district, can answer it. Karl: Democratic presidential contenders miss votes WASHINGTON (CNN) --There's some griping by Democrats on Capitol Hill about some of their own members -- namely two senators running for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina missed votes Thursday. Congressional Correspondent Jonathan Karl spoke with CNN's Judy Woodruff about the Hill rumblings. WOODRUFF: The Democratic presidential race already having an effect up there? KARL: It sure looks that way. And this may not be the last time we report a story like this, but it is the first. And that is, there have been two very interesting absences today in the Senate. As the Democrats have been going through a series of votes trying to increase spending on homeland security and on education, John Edwards and John Kerry, both of whom are running for president, have not been here for these votes. And these are votes that Democrats have cast as very important votes, critical votes, that talk about the central priorities of the country. And both John Kerry and John Edwards have not been here, causing some real frustration on the part of Democratic aides. And these are very important votes from the perspective of Tom Daschle. Listen to him from earlier today. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TOM DASCHLE, MINORITY LEADER: What you want to do is send as clear as message as we can that we're willing to commit the resources of this country to carry the rhetoric that we've heard so often on the floor of the Senate and in every one of these State of the Union messages. We've got to match our commitment in resources to the rhetoric we hear from our leaders. That's what you're doing. KARL: Now, there Tom Daschle was aiming his fire at the Republicans. But, privately, senior Democratic aides are aiming some fire at John Kerry and John Edwards and warning, as one person said: This is a harbinger of things to come. We are facing critical votes and these guys are off campaigning for president. Now, as far as what John Edwards and John Kerry are saying, John Edwards' office has no comment on this and, in fact, could not tell us where he is, except to say that he's in the South. John Kerry is up in Boston. His spokesperson for his campaign said that John Kerry has a long record of loyalty to the Democratic caucus, and when there are critical votes, they will be here. Now, Judy, two important points on this: One, the votes that have taken place so far today, the Democrats would have lost even if Kerry and Edwards were here. But there is a critical vote coming tonight on education funding that could be quite close, where those votes could be critical. And the second thing is that those are not the only two people that are missing. There are two others that have been not here, Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, neither of whom are, however, running for president. Find this article at: cnn.com