For years, members of Congress who wanted to use Macs in their offices were discouraged from doing so. That's all changing, and Thomas Burr of the Salt Lake Tribune now reports that freshman Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) will have his big screen iMac in his new office. His staff will be using Macs as well.
In previous years, senators' Macs were virtually eliminated by the office of the Senate Sergeant of Arms (where the chief administrative and IT management functions reside for the legislative chamber). Despite the official "we don't support the Mac" stance, there were some holdouts. The late Senator Edward Kennedy had bo