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Video: Senators honor Coleman

By Chris Steller | 07.10.09 | 12:44 pm

The U.S. Senate took an hour Thursday to honor former Sen. Norm Coleman. Here are clips of the complete tributes to Coleman from 10 senators (seven Republicans and three Democrats, including Amy Klobuchar), as well as transcribed highlights of their remarks — with particular attention to what they had to say about Coleman’s future.

Coleman deserves ‘easy, humdrum’ race someday, former GOP colleague says

By Chris Steller | 07.09.09 | 2:46 pm

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman “deserves an easy, humdrum, conventional political race some day,” said his former colleague, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. The remark was part of a bipartisan, tag-team series of testaments to Coleman that consumed…

‘Pretending to be senator’: Coleman is still attending GOP caucus meetings

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.24.09 | 1:10 pm

When Al Franken started putting “Sen.-elect,” before his name, former Sen. Norm Coleman’s spokesman Mark Drake responded by calling it a “joke,” and staffer Luke Friedrich followed it up by claiming Franken was merely “pretending to