Senate scrap involving Salazar purged from record

Sen. Ken Salazar played a key role in a nasty partisan spat on the Senate floor. So nasty that Senate leaders have rewritten history to get rid of it. The Senate purged from the Congressional Record a vote taken on legislation from Salazar, an amendment stating the Senate's opposition to President Bush pardoning Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

The Senate defeated that amendment 47-49. But there's no official record that vote ever occurred.

That's fine with Salazar, D-Colo.

"Everyone just kind of wants to forget that that night happened," Salazar spokeswoman Stephanie Valencia said.

Spokesmen for the Senate leaders said Monday they weren't trying to hide anything. They just wanted to end a fight.