Reply #5: Working on a LTTE, need to check some facts

[low_phreaq]

I'm writing a letter-to-the-editor, and I want to check some facts, so if anybody could help me out, that would be great!

1. Thursday morning I was listening to a talk radio show and a caller said he had just been told by Senator Boxer's office that she would sign the challenge. At the next news break, if I remember correctly, the CNN Radio News top story was Andrea Yates' convictions being overturned. Boxer's challenge was a few stories down, possibly even the last in the second group of stories. Anybody else remember it this way?

2. Did any major TV network besides C-SPAN carry the joint session and/or split sessions of Congress live?

3. When I found a TV, after they split, I think, it was tuned to CNN and they had live tsunami devastation coverage, followed by Consumer Electronics Show coverage. Is this accurate? Did CNN have any coverage of Congress?

4. In this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/electoral.vote/index.html
there's this statement:
"Republicans dismissed the effort as a stunt, noting that specific allegations of voting problems in Ohio have been investigated by journalists and, the Republicans said, found to be untrue."
I couldn't find a reference to Republicans noting investigation by journalists of voting problems in the Congressional Record, so I'm wondering if this was said outside of an official session. I'm waiting to hear back from an email to the author. Until then, anybody have a clue who may have said this and when?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!