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Reid on Burris: 'We are going to do what we have to do'

 
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D Nevada, is not pulling any punches in what is increasingly shaping up to be a likely confrontation between Senate Democrats and Roland Burris, who has been named by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. “Blagojevich obviously is a corrupt individual. I [...] (link)

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