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Sen. George Voinovich doesn't think so. The Ohio Republican boycotted a hearing of an Environment and Public Works subcommittee Thursday to protest the appearance of Kevin Richardson of the pop group Backstreet Boys, who was testifying against the coal mining technique known as mountaintop removal

Good for the senator. Mountaintop removable is a serious issue and isn't served by giving credibility to some teeny-bopper pop star just because he happened to be born in a coal producing region.

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Good for the senator.

I agree. However, who is now going to take the ball and run with it? This nonsense has just got to stop. It's making a mockery of our governmental issues.