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Burris: 'I intend to be sworn in'

 

Published 1/5/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) – Democratic leaders have said publicly they will not seat him — but Roland Burris will be in the Senate when it meets Tuesday. “I intend to be sworn in,” the former Illinois attorney general told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Monday. But Burris, appointed by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill Barack Obama’s [...] (link)

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