Robert Torricelli, who was facing a federal investigation into improper gifts from a contributor.
Robert Torricelli, a Democrat and Lautenberg's longtime rival, abruptly left the race in 2002.
It could be, as Torricelli says, that the company has done a lot of good.
Only the prospect of losing an election once considered to be a cakewalk prompted Torricelli's last-minute withdrawal.
Torricelli was legally nominated in the Democratic primary last June, when he was already under an ethical cloud.
Robert Torricelli of New Jersey and Patty Murray of Washington have introduced the School Environmental Protection Act .
CNN: Children face danger in the schoolyard grass from pesticides
One of the most prominent MEK endorsers was former Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), but the list includes many Republicans.
New Jersey is a competitive state that was carried by Bill Clinton and now-senator Bob Torricelli (D) last November.
"It's unfortunate that the Torricelli-Lautenberg Machine has forced the people of New Jersey through yet another embarrassing episode, " Forrester said.
New Jersey's Bob Torricelli, who quickly emerged as one of the Democrats' lead attack dogs, summed up Sullivan's testimony with biting sarcasm.
Senator Torricelli didn't die or become disabled by an accident or disease.
Robert Torricelli of New Jersey and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, while Republicans are now better suited to hold seats in New Hampshire and Tennessee.
In 1608, the Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli was born.
The Thompson-Torricelli legislation underscores the burgeoning recognition that, at the dawn of the 21st century, the bulk of the world's available development capital resides in the U.S. markets.
The prime-movers behind this initiative at the moment are Senators Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), the chairman and a senior Democrat respectively on the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Thompson-Torricelli initiative has momentum, thanks to the recent debilitating experience of one major Chinese enterprise as it sought last month to tap the resources of the U.S. capital markets.
That prompted Torricelli to warn that if Republican senators approve the House managers' witnesses but reject those called by the White House, the impeachment trial would descend into a morass of partisanship.
Republicans had asked the Supreme Court to overrule the New Jersey Supreme Court, which last week approved a request by Democrats to remove Torricelli from the ballot and replace him with Lautenberg.
However, Novak reports, Republicans now are somewhat hopeful about two other seats: they think New Jersey's Dough Forester has a shot against embattled Bob Torricelli, and that Rep. Saxby Chambliss could beat incumbent Max Cleland.
It decreed that Democrats could replace disgraced Senator Robert Torricelli, who was running for reelection, with a new candidate, even though the law explicitly sets a 51-day deadline--long since past--for removing a candidate from the ballot.
Siding with Democrats, U.S. District Court Judge Garrett Brown refused to intervene, saying the case would be best handled by the state judge who is implementing the state Supreme Court's ruling to drop Torricelli from the ballot.
Torricelli, whose poll numbers plunged amid an ethics scandal, pulled out of the race Monday, saying he did not want to be responsible for Democrats losing control of the Senate, where they hold power by a single vote.
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