Year in Pictures: 2001

May:
Some called Jim Jeffords a traitor; others called him a hero. But when the Republican senator from Vermont turned in his GOP credentials May 24 and crossed the aisle, he trumped Dick Cheney's tiebreaker and tipped procedural control of the 50-50 Senate over to the Democrats — and ground the progress of George W. Bush's legislative agenda to an abrupt halt from which it has yet to recover.

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