Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterCongress certifies Obama win in symbolic ritual (AFP)
Published 1/8/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - A joint session of the US Congress on Thursday formally certified the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States in a ceremony pulsing with history and symbolism.
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