Since Jan. 3 the U. S. Senate has got along with 95 members and West Virginia with only one Senator. Neither Senate nor State seemed to suffer appreciably under this arrangement. Nevertheless when Rush Drew Holt celebrated his 30th birthday last week, the Senate spent two full days arguing over whether he was constitutionally entitled to the Senate seat to which West Virginia elected him last autumn.
His father, his mother, his sister and some 200 neighbors were on hand to watch Rush graduate into the Senate. Bespectacled, wirehaired, snaggletoothed, he eagerly posed in...
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