Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Stephen Douglas united other Democrats and members of the anti-slavery Republican Party to fight against the bill in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.

BBC: Week ahead

Among the 1, 300 business leaders at the forum will be Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Douglas Daft of Coca Cola, Nobuyuki Idei of Sony and Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard.

BBC: Economic gloom at Davos forum

Douglas MHK Bill Henderson has been sacked from the treasury after a disagreement over the Isle of Man's proposed introduction of tuition fees.

BBC: Isle of Man treasury politician sacked in tuition fees row