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Politics: Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state's future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate votes up on eBay. Nelson, the 60th vote in the middle-of-the-night Senate party line vote on health care reform, will go down in American political history as the inventor of the permanent earmark. His seemingly principled stand against including federal funding for abortion evaporated like the morning dew as he decided to take what was behind door No. 1. The deal for Nelson includes special Medicaid funding for Nebraska, along...

Cheney visits LA to aid candidates Terrell, Fletcher campaigns gain financial support Mike Hasten Posted on November 19, 2002 LAFAYETTE - With the help of Vice President Dick Cheney and Gov. Mike Foster, Republican senatorial contender Suzanne Haik Terrell picked up about a quarter-million dollars at a rally here Monday to finance her runoff campaign. Terrell hopes to unseat incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, in the Dec. 7 runoff, and Cheney swept through Louisiana on Monday to lend support to Terrell and to 5th Congressional District candidate Lee Fletcher, R-Monroe. Cheney's first stop, earlier Monday, was in Monroe. Republican...