After the 2006 mid-term election he has been occasionally depicted as a duck with a broken leg and a crutch-a reference to him being a ' lame duck president '.

Both former President Jimmy Carter and President George W. Bush made visits to the city of Elko during the 2006 mid-term election.

Following the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime opponent of the repository, became the Senate Majority Leader, putting him in a position to greatly affect the future of the project.

Pacifica also produced Informed Dissent, a ten-week series for the 2006 mid-term elections that drew from talent across the network.

The Socialist Equality Party also ran candidates for the 2006 US mid-term elections, including Bill Van Auken for US Senate in New York State, Jerome White for Congress in Michigan and John Burton for Congress in California.

On March 10, 2006, Gallegly announced his intent to retire from the House of Representatives after the 2006 mid-term elections, citing health concerns.

Emanuel was chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2006 mid-term elections and remained a top strategist for House Democrats during the 2008 cycle.

In the mid-term election of 2006, McCrery defeated Democratic challengers Patti Cox and Artis Cash and Republican Chester T. " Catfish " Kelley, a Shreveport businessman who advertises his catfish restaurant on the Rush Limbaugh radio program and who has been interviewed on the statewide Moon Griffon radio talk show.

In the 2006 mid-term election he faced both Paul Haring and Eddie Zamora, both Republicans.

Tammy Duckworth, a Thai American Iraq War veteran, ran for Congress as a Democrat in Illinois's 6th district in the 2006 mid-term election.

President Bush lent his views to a few controversies that would potentially shape the mid-term elections, held on November 7, 2006.

However, after the November 2006 mid-term elections Democrats won a majority of the formerly Republican-controlled House, and in early 2007, Democrats re-introduced a bill in the House similar to the 2005 legislation.

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The last congressional elections were held on December 11, 2006.

Founded 2000 by former PLN member ; strong showings in 2002 and 2006 elections ( 30 % of Assembly in 2006 ).

Several smaller new parties that participated for the first time in the 2006 elections include Partido Unión Patriótica and Partido Alianza Democrática Nacionalista.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

This, however led to a stalemate in 2006 elections where both the left and the right each gained exactly 100 seats ; as many commenters point out, the earlier system would have given the right 3 – 4 seats majority.

On 15 May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a cleric and successful businessman educated in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, was declared the winner of elections for President of the Republic.

2006 — Parliamentary elections held.

A constitution was approved by voters and on 30 July 2006 the Congo held its first multi-party elections since independence in 1960.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

The position of Vice-President expired after the 2006 elections.

Since the July 2006 elections, the country is led by a semi-presidential, strongly-decentralized state.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

* 2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

Vice President Alfredo Palacio assumed the Presidency and vowed to complete the term of office and hold elections in 2006.

The first elections since the overthrow were held on February 8, 2006 to elect a new President.

However, after the elections in April 2006, the Socialist coalition under Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany unveiled a package of austerity measures which were designed to reduce the budget deficit to 3 % of GDP by 2008.

These coalitions continued into the 2001 and 2006 national elections.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

* Nachman, Gerald, Ed Sullivan, December 18, 2006.

* Maguire, James, Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan, Billboard Books, 2006

* 1933 – Ed Casey, Australian politician ( d. 2006 )

* 1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist ( d. 2006 )

* The Computer Museum Report, Volume 8, TX-0 alumni reunion, Spring 1984, Ed Thelen Web site ( accessed June 18, 2006 )

** Ed Bradley, American journalist ( 60 Minutes ) ( d. 2006 )

# Strahler, A. H., and Strahler A., 2006, Introducing Physical Geography, 4th Ed., Wiley.

In 2003, two British researchers, Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, retraced the route in 384 days, and in their 2006 book " The Long March " estimated the March actually covered about 6, 000 km ( 3, 700 miles ).

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 54 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 56 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

Since 2006, improvisational music in many forms has been supported and promoted by ISIM, the International Society for Improvised Music, founded by Ed Sarath of the University of Michigan and Sarah Weaver.

In a 2006 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Petty said that he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.

The Beach Boys rescheduled their concert and played a Kirby Park concert on Labor Day weekend, Sunday September 3, 2006, attended by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.

* Ordnance Survey, ( 2006 ), Solway Firth, Explorer Map, No. 314, Ed.

Governor Ed Rendell lost Westmoreland in both 2002 and 2006.

Due to population growth Pike County is trending more Democratic as Democratic Governor Ed Rendell won Pike in 2006 with 53 %.

Governor Ed Rendell narrowly carried it against Lynn Swann while Republican Rick Santorum narrowly carried it against Bob Casey in 2006.

In 2006 both Democrats Governor Ed Rendell and now Senator Bob Casey Jr. won 67. 5 % and 60. 6 % of the vote in Luzerne County, respectively.

In 2006, Democrat Governor Ed Rendell and Senator Bob Casey, Jr. won 59 % and 65 % of the vote in Fayette County.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 51 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50. 6 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 55 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50. 2 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In 2006, Governor Ed Rendell and Bob Casey Jr. both carried Centre and Democrat Scott Conklin decisively won the State House seat left open by the retirement of Republican Lynn Herman in the 77th district.

( 2006 ) Six Hundred New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856, 2nd Ed, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-04

* A Soldier's Play ( 2006 ) ( Tyra Yarber, Ed " Tiger Verdin and Averis Anderson )

The Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches elected him to their Hall of Fame in 1996 and awarded him the Ed Barker award in 2006 for these outstanding accomplishments.