Anti- Gay Amendment Backers Among Those Departing Congress

(Washington) When the new Congress convenes next month, a few high achievers and a few lawmakers known more for being characters than for their legislative skills won't be around.

Some left by choice, others rejected by voters in what President Bush called a Democratic "thumping" of his fellow Republicans in November. A few - such as Florida's Katherine Harris, former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne - reached for the brass ring of higher office and fell short.

A couple of those most prominent among the missing are Democrats, but most are Republicans.

Whether cherished for their political skills or their entertainment value, they leave a vacuum.

Among them:

-Sen. Bill Frist, the heart transplant surgeon and heir to a hospital fortune who switched to a political career in mid-life and - in his typical overachiever fashion - became the Senate's majority leader just eight years later.

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Now maybe Congress can get down to doing the peoples business instead of trying to make some of us 2nd class citizens.

We'll have a nation run by the Constitution and not the Bible. Imagine the possibilities.