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Former Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT) has died [View all]
Former Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT) has died at 80, the Burlington Free Press reports.
"Jeffords was regarded as a maverick in Washington even before he split from the Republican Party in 2001, decried the party's rightward shift and criticized what he saw President George W. Bush's political intransigence on a number of issues... Jeffords' decision to become an independent in 2001 rocked the nation by giving control of the Senate to the Democrats, costing his Republican colleagues their committee chairmanships."
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/18/james-jeffords-dies/14229425/
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