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WASHINGTON — Three New York Democrats, including mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, are among a small number of congressmen who are formally protesting President Bush's election, The Post has learned. Weiner's signature in support of a highly controversial letter sent yesterday to Vice President Dick Cheney, who serves as president of the Senate, and other congressional leaders comes as a surprise because the other lawmakers are among the most liberal, stridently anti-Bush members of Congress. Weiner, who has a relatively moderate voting record and is now trying to oust Mayor Bloomberg, raised eyebrows by jumping on board because he is not...

Twenty-one Member [sic] of Congress, led by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), sent a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell today in support of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The letter states: We are writing to express our support of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has recently been under attack by some American lawmakers for the U.N’s Oil-for-Food program scandal occurring under his watch. Such an attack on the second-term Secretary-General and Nobel Peace laureate is disgraceful and premature. There has been no hint of impropriety on the part of the Secretary-General, who on numerous occasions has proven...

BOSTON — A group of College Democrats was talking about Congressman Jim McDermott last night when the group's president-elect walked up. Grant Woodard, an earnest khakis-and-blazer-type from Grinnell College in Iowa, demurred when asked his opinion of the liberal Seattle Democrat, saying he didn't really know anything about him. "Sure you do," said Luther Lowe, Woodard's campaign manager. (Here, even collegiate politicians, it seems, have managers and speechwriters.) "He's the 'Fahrenheit 9/11' guy." Say no more. "Oh, he's the psychiatrist," Woodard said. "Just on what I saw of him in the movie, if that's what he's like all the time,...

<p>Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington, the Democratic congressman who went to Baghdad last year to say that President Bush would lie to the American people in order to justify war, has now accused the president of timing Saddam Hussein's capture for political ends.</p>