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Burris clears another hurdle to Senate

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor January 9, 2009 02:06 PM

Roland Burris moved a significant step closer to replacing President-elect Barack Obama in the US Senate when the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the state secretary of state's signature isn't required on his appointment document after all.

It is one of the legal hurdles that leaders of the Senate set before they would seat Burris. The other appeared to be met on Thursday when Burris testified before a special committee that later recommended the impeachment of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich that there was no hanky-panky in his appointment by the governor.

Late today, however, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said the body will not accept Burris without the secretary of state's signature, the Associated Press reported.

Then later today, the secretary of state Jesse White signed a separate document affirming Burris's appointment, which could suffice.

After initially flatly refusing to seat Burris, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders opened the door this week to Burris taking the spot.

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Wonderful! Now if only Pelosi and Reid could be impeached!! I hope that Obama does well for the sake of all of us. But, he is from that same corrupt system of the Democratic Party- be it Illinois, or Massachsetts, or Nevada, or California, of New Jersey where I live.

We need somebody to kick some butt ,and voters to vote out the incumbents. It seems that nobody has the balls. Four years from now, eight years from now, Obama will have accomplished nothing. So much for his "Big Change".

Posted by Robert II January 9, 09 07:48 PM
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