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Published 1/7/2009 by Perry Bacon Jr. at Wash Post In Congress

Blocked from claiming a Senate seat, a man who once said his success in politics was the result of "divine intervention" stood outside the Capitol yesterday and declared: "Members of the media, my name is Roland Burris, the junior senator from the state of Illinois." (link)

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