Americans United called Kennedy "extreme, " and said he referred to the United States as "a Christian nation" in his introduction of the attorney general.
The Class of 1998 posed for its official picture on the Capitol steps in the morning before a day of closed-door orientation sessions that ranged from a generalintroduction to politics to logistical issue like the House bell system, how to vote and the layout of the sprawling Capitol Hill complex.
In his introduction, Secretary-General Kofi Annan had noted Giuliani was not the first mayor to be "frustrated" by the activities of the United Nations.