nytimes.com - 1/13/2009
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Senate Democratic leaders said Roland W. Burris of Illinois would be seated, resolving the conflict around his appointment. >
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/12/2009
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Senate Democratic leaders today cleared the way for
Roland Burris to be seated as a senator from...
Illinois, after more than a weeklong spectacle surrounding the state’s corruption scandal and the questioning of Mr. Burris’s credentials. After Mr. ...
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Burris Cleared to Take Senate Seat
chicagobreakingnews.com - 1/12/2009
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WASHINGTON--Roland Burris won his battle to succeed Barack
Obama as the junior senator from Illinois this afternoon...
as Senate Democrats dropped their objections and said he should be seated this week. The agreement came after Senat lawyers said Burris ...
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Senate Democrats agree to seat Burris this week
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The Early Word: Obama, Clinton on the Hill
The Caucus —
... them, with Kerry and Clinton having preliminary discussions about what foreign trips they can take together and Obama working to forge a close working relationship with Clinton in a series of regular phone calls and meetings since he chose her for secretary of state in mid-November. Burris Appointment Senate Democrats have cleared a path for Roland W. Burris, the appointee of Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, to be seated as the next senator from Illinois. The Times’s Carl Hulse reports : “Senate officials said they were planning to swear in Mr. Burris this week, ...
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