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  TPMmuckraker: Ted Stevens Archives
Stevens’ acknowledgment that his son in under investigation firms up what the press pieced together in May. Former Alaska Senate President Ben Stevens was identified by the press as “state senator B” described in the guilty pleas of two former Veco executives.
Ted Stevens (R-AK) jacked his house off the ground, inserted a new first story and placed the old first floor on top, thanks to the help of a top executive at local oil company Veco Corp. who hired at least one key contractor to complete the feat of a job.
Ted Stevens does not seem to be on prosecutors' radar screen in the corruption investigation.
www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/cats/ted_stevens   (12384 words)

  
 Ted Stevens - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
MAIN TUBES TURN ON Ted Stevens is the inventor of YouTube.
At some point in mid-2006, Ted Stevens appeared on whatever the fuck Senate panel he is on, subservient to corporate interests, and attempted to explain how the Internets work.
Ted Stevens is the official senator for Alaska.
encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Ted_Stevens   (818 words)

  
 Ted Stevens | Sunlight Foundation
Ted Stevens official actions in the U.S. Senate that have benefited the clients of his son, state Sen. Ben Stevens.
Among the offices searched were that of State Senate President Ben Stevens, the son of US Senator Ted Stevens, and an important political ally of VECO in the state legislature.
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), is blocking the "Google for government contracts" bill out of revenge for Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) successful campaign to defeat the "Bridge to Nowhere".
sunlightfoundation.com /taxonomy/term/176   (1326 words)

  
 Ted Stevens - Congresspedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Stevens was the President pro tempore of the Senate, the third in the line of succession for the Presidency, following the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, until 2007 when the Democratic Party took back the majority in Congress.
Ted Stevens's official website was rated by citizen researchers in February 2007 as part of a survey by the Sunlight Foundation.
Stevens' son, Ben Stevens, was appointed to the Alaska Senate in 2001, and is currently the Senate President.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ted_Stevens   (4432 words)

  
 Catalog of Ted Stevens' Actions That Have Benefitted Clients of Ben Stevens | Sunlight Foundation
Ted Stevens has done: Helped settle a contract dispute between VECO and Pakistan while chairing an appropriations subcommittee that was considering legislation to remove sanctions against Pakistan.
Ted Stevens has done: Pushed through legislation for a $100-million buy-back program for crabbing vessels as the crab population shrinks.
Ted Stevens has done: Picked the agency to divide $30 million in disaster relief money after a bad groundfish season in 2000.
www.sunlightfoundation.com /node/1110   (1793 words)

  
 Strongman of the North (Seattle Weekly)
Stevens is also legendary for his Senate- floor theatrics—the desk pounding, melodramatic threats, and power neckties depicting the Incredible Hulk or the Tasmanian Devil, depending on his mood.
Stevens' son, Ben, president of the Alaska state Senate and a seafood- industry lobbyist, is also in business with a Seattle seafood company—one that is being sued, along with Ben, in a dispute that has raised questions about his father's role in doling out the Bering catch.
Stevens' plan for, as Cantwell seems to imply, flening Puget Sound with an inevitable oil spill to rival the 11.9-million gallon 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Stevens' home state is DOA, she feels.
www.seattleweekly.com /news/0601/ted-stevens.php   (4216 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Ted Stevens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cory Doctorow: Senator Ted Stevens, a neutricidal maniac who wants to allow the phone companies to charge Google and others for delivering their packets to you, gave this incredible description of his understanding of how the internet...
Senator Stevens, just because you think were morons doesnt mean that you would not have brought the measure before the Senate this week if you had been able to get your 60 cloture votes....
Stevens' son, Ben Stevens, was appointed to the Alaska Senate in 2001 by Governor Tony Knowles, and is currently the Senate President.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/ted_stevens   (1234 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sen. Stevens is 'the secret senator' - Aug 30, 2006
CNN has confirmed that Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has placed a hold on a bill that would require the government to publish online a database of federal spending.
The allocation was backed by Stevens and fellow Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska, the powerful chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Ted Stevens' office said his hold on a bill was not meant to be a secret.
www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/08/30/secret.senators/index.html   (674 words)

  
 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport dedication   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ted was working for Secretary McKay in the Interior Department and as a legislative specialist and I was an intern for Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas.
In the doing of this Ted Stevens is surrounded by many colleagues good at proposing more spending, new programs to boot, and those who look at any spending increase with a gleam in their eye and a sharp pencil.
Ted is a bipartisan fence mender while riding herd on all the strays.
www.commonwealthnorth.org /transcripts/stevensairport.html   (3004 words)

  
 Ted Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stevens will serve as President pro tempore until January 4, 2007, when the 110th Congress convenes and Democrats take control of this chamber.
November 18, 2003, the senator's 80th birthday, was declared Senator Ted Stevens Appreciation Day by Alaska's Governor, Frank H. Murkowski.
Stevens delivered a eulogy of Gerald R. Ford at the 38th President's funeral ceremony on December 30, 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ted_Stevens   (1155 words)

  
 Series of tubes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stevens was criticizing a proposed amendment to a bill in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation which would have prohibited Internet service providers from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers.
Why else would Senator Ted Stevens, a man more comfortable in the horse and buggy era, wind up in charge of regulating the Internet...
According to Reuters, Stevens is open to going on The Daily Show to rebut Jon Stewart and defend his use of the term by asserting, "I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word 'tubes'".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Series_of_tubes   (928 words)

  
 Irregular Times Rating and Contact Information for Senator Ted Stevens of AK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Senator Ted Stevens failed to vote "NO" against the Tyranny Act, S. Senator Stevens swore a solemn oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
Senator Ted Stevens cast a recklessly anticonstitutional "YES" vote to pass the Tyranny Act, S. Senator Stevens swore a solemn oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
Rather, Senator Stevens cravenly accepted the bizarre notion that a man with an anti-constitutional record, and who is unwilling to share his point of view regarding the constitution, is worthy of being elevated to the position of Chief Justice.
www.irregularbin.com /senate/senStevensAK.html   (3143 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens, who has spent 37 years in Congress raiding the federal Treasury on behalf of his state, dismisses the notion that anything should threaten Alaska's status as the No. 1 state for pork.
Stevens has competition for unusual connections between earmarks and family members from his colleague Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Gov. Murkowski's daughter, who won a full term in 2004 after he appointed her to replace him.
McCabe was partners with state senator Ben Stevens, the son of Ted Stevens, in a consulting firm called Advance North that represents salmon fishermen who are regulated by the state Board of Fisheries, which is chaired by none other than Mr.
www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110007930   (1442 words)

  
 Presentation Zen: Ted Stevens and the art of the ramble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
US Senator, Ted Stevens (Alaska), has generated a lot of buzz this month due to his "interesting" remarks in opposition to net neutrality made at a committee meeting at the end of last month.
Stevens needed 11 minutes, a ninja can sum up the issue in far less time (and then disappear into the night).
Stevens has passion and energy, but as he demonstrated so well for us, you've got to really know what you're talking about as well.
presentationzen.blogs.com /presentationzen/2006/07/ted_stevens_and.html   (1603 words)

  
 Senator Stevens Speaks on Net Neutrality | Public Knowledge
Amusingly, Stevens claims that it took him 5 days to get an email due to internet congestion—no doubt caused by all these commercial download services clogging the internet pipes with their infernal video (and not paying their fair share).
Stevens points out is one between “…providers versus the owners of content, and all that sort of thing, that is a battle between billion-dollar people.
Stevens described most likely was an internal network or ISP issue, and fault could not be laid on the internet.
www.publicknowledge.org /node/497   (9532 words)

  
 Ted Stevens and Don Young Fail to Provide 'Honest Services' - A comprehensive update: | Stephen Taufen | Groundswell ...
With seeming foot-dragging at APOC, Ben Stevens was allowed, despite clear state laws to the contrary and the precedent of the State Supreme Court's opinion in an earlier case involving a state senator's campaign, to again sit in the Legislature in January.
Ted's arrogance hit its height while you were out fishing, and he was finally exposed as the senator holding back the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 that would allow citizen-taxpayers to track government spending.
Stevens said, "I agree that we need to restore public confidence but this is one of the things that destroys public confidence because it says you cannot have confidence in the investigatory side of the Senate Ethics [committee] process.
www.alaskareport.com /stephen-taufen30012.htm   (5380 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
Some of you might remember the hysterics of Republican Senator Ted Stevens in the United States Senate when an amendment proposed by Senator Tom Coburn threatened to divert funding for the "Bridge to Nowhere" towards the reconstruction of a bridge devastated by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana.
In a clash of generations and political philosophy, 37-year Senate veteran Ted Stevens of Alaska told a freshman colleague that he would resign and "be taken out of here on a stretcher" if the Senate killed funding for two Alaskan bridges.
Ted Stevens says earmarks for controversial bridges near Anchorage and Ketchikan will be removed from federal law under a proposal agreed to by members of a House-Senate team negotiating a transportation spending bill.
www.democrats.org /a/2005/11/senator_ted_ste.php   (1058 words)

  
 CampusProgress.org | Help Ted Stevens!
As a life-long fan of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, I was thrilled when the U.S. Senate voted 51-49 to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of the 2007 federal budget.
But, perhaps, I thought, it was indeed time for Stevens to spend less time in the public sphere fighting for his country and more time on his personal life.
I was sure that Ted Stevens would finally step down and treat the depression that had clutched him for the 37 years he has been in the senate when I heard him say: "It’s a day I don’t want to remember.
www.campusprogress.org /features/830/help-ted-stevens   (840 words)

  
 All your Internet are belong to Ted Stevens | News.blog | CNET News.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It's official: Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and his "The Internet is a series of tubes" speech to the Senate Commerce Committee have officially soared to the heights of Yatta, All Your Base, Numa Numa and (on the more political side) the Dean Scream.
Ever since the octogenarian Stevens infamously declared in the midst of the Senate "Net neutrality" debate that "the Internet is a series of tubes" and that "an Internet was sent by (his) staff," the Net-humor crowd has milked the misstatements for all they're worth.
Stevens' speech now has a MySpace music page, and a video of "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart comparing Stevens to "Grandpa Abe" Simpson is making the rounds.
news.com.com /2061-10802_3-6094243.html   (278 words)

  
 Does Murdoch's DIRECTV Own Sen. Ted Stevens?
Stevens has not explained why he supports the legislation, but TVPredictions.com has learned that nearly 10 percent of the senator's 2005-2006 individual campaign contributions have come from employees of companies owned by Murdoch, such as News Corp., Fox and DIRECTV.
But Multichannel News' Ted Hearn reports in this week's issue that Stevens has inserted language in the bill that cable operators would have to carry "any digital video signal." The magazine quotes Stevens as saying the new language is intended to impose digital 'must-carry' on the cable operators.
Consequently, as Stevens' bill now stands, cable TV operators would be required to carry all local Digital TV signals while DIRECTV and EchoStar would not.
www.tvpredictions.com /stevens070906.htm   (579 words)

  
 Life After Net Neutrality: Replaced By a Chimp?
Stevens is using his considerable political clout to get at least sixty senators to agree to bring the flawed measure to the floor.
Stevens has acknowledged that his rewrite of the 1934 Communications Act now faces an uphill battle, primarily due to the controversy generated by public-interest groups over network neutrality, the guiding principle of the Internet, which guarantees all users have equal access to content and services.
Stevens and his pro-big media Senate allies might also attach key parts of his bill in "must-pass legislation" such as in budget or national security laws.
www.thenation.com /doc/20061002/chester   (1128 words)

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