The Senate has approved a bill to name the federal office building in Omaha, Neb., after Sen. Edward Zorinsky (D-Neb.), who died March 6, 1987, at age 58. Elected to the Senate in 1976, Zorinsky was the first Jew to win a statewide election in Nebraska.
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