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BloombergMurkowski May Lose U.S. Senate Energy Panel Post Over Write-In Candidacy
By James Rowley - Sep 21, 2010 2:57 PM CT
Republicans may strip Senator Lisa Murkowski of her post as the party’s ranking member on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee as a result of her decision to seek re-election as a write-in candidate, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said today.
The Senate Republican caucus will meet tomorrow to determine “whether or not it’s appropriate for her, under the circumstances, to continue as ranking member” on the committee, McConnell, of Kentucky, told reporters.
Murkowski, of Alaska, declared her write-in candidacy on Sept. 18 after she was defeated in her state’s Republican Senate primary last month. Murkowski, who was seeking nomination to a second full term, lost to Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks and a former U.S. magistrate judge.
Senator John Cornyn of Texas, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said stripping Murkowski of her ranking committee post is “the appropriate thing to do” because “when you choose not to accept the judgment of the primary voters and you run as a write-in and not be the nominee, then it has consequences.”
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