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Published 12/16/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
Bloomberg - Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats in the Illinois House of
Representatives postponed stripping Governor Rod Blagojevichâs
power to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect
Barack Obama that prosecutors say Blagojevich tried to sell.
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