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Ensign Scandal Rattles Senate

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
June 18, 2009, Midnight

Sen. John Ensign (Nev.) — once one of the GOP’s rising stars — stepped down from his position as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee on Wednesday as fallout from a sex scandal threatened to permanently knock him out of leadership.

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