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Published 1/8/2009 at CNN.com - Politics
Roland Burris has no doubt he is a U.S. senator. But before he gets seated in the nation's Capitol, the former state attorney general will be in Springfield, Illinois, on Thursday to explain his ties to that state's tainted governor.
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