...Stevens, who speculated aloud on Friday that his end in the Senate may be drawing near. Sen. Stevens, the most senior Republican senator, suggested that if the latest effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling does not produce...

...influential positions in Congress. Except for a brief period when Democrats regained the Senate majority, Alaska's senior Republican senator has occupied, in addition to his personal offices, an ornate suite on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol...