The next Congress took shape behind closed doors Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate elected leaders and conferred on the fates of their frowned-upon colleagues.
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in Congress, won a reprieve from a GOP critic, who held off on a move to expel him from the Senate's Republican conference. Stevens was convicted of felonies for lying on Senate financial disclosure forms about $250,000 in gifts and other contributions he received.
Democrats, meanwhile, decided to let Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his chairmanship of a key committee but stripped him of a subcommittee chairmanship as punishment for his …
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