On this day 15 years ago: “A Senator is needed but missing.”

Well, not quite 15 years ago. But I had to add a comment to BFSkinner’s great diary: On this day 15 years ago: History was changed.

“A Senator is needed but missing.”

Jan 6, 2001, African-American members of the House try to object to disenfranchisement of minorities in 2000 election: 

In hindsight it might be a good time to bring this up again, maybe ask some of the Democratic senators who were present at the time why they did not join with African-American members of the House.

Here is a list of Democratic senators at that time:

Robert Byrd (D-WV)

Ted Kennedy (D-MA)

Daniel Inouye (D-HI)

Ernest Hollings (D-SC)

Joe Biden (D-DE)

Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)

Max Baucus (D-MT)

Carl Levin (D-MI)

Chris Dodd (D-CT)

Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

John Kerry (D-MA)

Tom Harkin (D-IA)

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

John Breaux (D-LA)

Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)

Tom Daschle (D-SD)

Harry Reid (D-NV)

Bob Graham (D-FL)

Kent Conrad (D-ND)

Herb Kohl (D-WI)

Joe Lieberman (D-CT)

Daniel Akaka (D-HI)

Paul Wellstone[7] (D-MN)

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Byron Dorgan (D-ND)

Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

Russ Feingold (D-WI)

Patty Murray (D-WA)

Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Richard Durbin (D-IL)

Robert Torricelli[5] (D-NJ)

Tim Johnson (D-SD)

Jack Reed (D-RI)

Max Cleland[5] (D-GA)

Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)

Evan Bayh (D-IN)

John Edwards (D-NC)

Zell Miller (D-GA)

Bill Nelson (D-FL)

Tom Carper (D-DE)

Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)

Maria Cantwell (D-WA)

Ben Nelson (D-NE)

Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Jean

Carnahan[5] (D-MO)

Mark Dayton (D-MN)