huffingtonpost.com - 1/5/2009
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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to meet with the chamber's top Republican to see if they can come to a bipartisan solution on what to do about Senate appointee Roland Burris.
Burris is the Democrat picked by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) to take ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/4/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said
on Sunday that "legal authority" exists under the Constitution...
to bar embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, but added there ...
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Reid cites "legal authority" to bar Illinois ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/4/2009
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latimesblogs.latimes.com —
A quick update on the Democrats' molten stew
that is the scandal surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich...
and his controversial appointment of Roland Burris as the state's new senator to fill the vacant seat of president-elect Barack Obama . ...
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Blagojevich says Sen. Reid sought to influence his Obama ...
progressillinois.com - 1/4/2009
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progressillinois.com —
This morning, NBC 5's City Desk aired an
interview with Roland Burris, who told reporter Mary Ann...
Ahern at the outset, "I am the senator." Burris went on to explain how he came to accept the appointment, what his plans are for Tuesday on Capitol ...
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Burris on NBC 5: "I Am The Senator" (Plus: ...
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'Plantation politics'
Political Animal —
... . Representative Bobby L. Rush, an Illinois Democrat who attended the event, described the standoff over Mr. Burris in racial terms, portraying the Senate as "the last bastion of racial plantation politics in America." Rush added , "We are just faced with a hard-headed room of people in the Senate who want to keep an African American out of the Senate." This is more than a little insulting. Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has tried to block the Burris appointment, and Jesse White is black. Barack Obama supports the effort to black Burris, and he's black. Do they want to ...
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