Senate Dems Will Seat Burris(update: Leaders Dispute Reports of Seating Burris)

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Source: CBS

Senate Democrats plan to accept Roland Burris for President-elect Barack Obama's vacant seat, the Associated Press reported. The move comes after Burris was blocked from taking his seat at the Senate yesterday.

Burris' paperwork was rejected at the opening of the 111th Congress, with Democratic leaders loath to accept any Senate nominee sent by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Burris was scheduled to meet Wednesday with the Senate's top two Democrats - Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and assistant leader Dick Durbin of Illinois.

Three weeks after Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges in what federal prosecutors said was a scheme to sell or trade Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder, the governor shocked Democratic leaders by appointing Burris to finish the final two years of the president-elect's six-year term.


Read more: http://cbs4.com/national/roland.burris.senate.2.901744.html

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Leaders Dispute Reports of Seating Burris
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
January 7, 2009, 10:53 a.m.
Despite news reports to the contrary, Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday assured that Democrat Roland Burris would not be immediately seated as the next U.S. Senator from Illinois.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/31101-1.html