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Published 1/5/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - Roland Burris, the Illinois statesman tapped by scandal-tainted Governor Rod Blagojevich to replace president-elect Barack Obama in the US Senate, headed for Washington Monday vowing to take his seat despite the controversy.
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