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By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyRepublicans picked up another seat in the lame-duck Senate session on Monday when Mark Kirk was sworn in to fill a GOP prize: the few weeks remaining of President Obama's Illinois Senate term. Kirk, a five-term House member, who took the oath of office from Vice President Joe Biden, was escorted into the Senate chamber by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and the last Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois: Peter Fitzgerald, elected for one term in 1998. Kirk comes early to the Senate as a result of a court-ordered special election to replace Obama. He replaces Democrat Roland Burris, ...
Sen. Roland Burris Eyeing (Not Seriously) Chicago Mayoral Bid
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyDeparting Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), who must give up his seat on Monday when Republican Sen.-elect Mark Kirk is sworn in, would not mind being the next mayor of Chicago -- as would about 20 other folks who have filed to run. Burris allowed his backers to file nominating petitions on Monday, the last day possible to qualify for the Feb. 22 mayoral primary. Other notable candidates include former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, former Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), attorney Gery Chico, state Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) and Rob Halpin, the man ...
Sen. Roland Burris Deplores Lack of Blacks in Senate in Farewell Speech
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyIn his farewell Senate speech, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) on Thursday deplored the fact that he is the only African-American in the Senate, and when he leaves on Nov. 29 there will be none. That's the day Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, who won the Nov. 2 election, is sworn in to fill the remainder of President Obama's original term. For Burris, serving in the Senate was the "opportunity of a lifetime," he said from the Senate floor, making no mention that he arrived cloaked in controversy because he was appointed by a governor accused of trying to sell Obama's old seat. "When the 112th ...
Turning Victory to Defeat? How Obama's Election Helped Put the Senate in Play
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySenate Democrats are in danger of losing their majority on Nov. 2, and two of the reasons go back to Barack Obama's own election as president: Illinois became vulnerable after he vacated the seat to move to the Oval Office, and the same thing happened in Colorado when he appointed the incumbent Democrat, Ken Salazar, to be his Interior Secretary. It could have been worse. The Delaware seat, long held by Joseph Biden before he became vice president, looked to be in big jeopardy until the GOP primary yielded a wild-card candidate in the person of Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell. New York ...
Filling Obama's Senate Seat: Two Elections on Tap for November?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyCHICAGO -- The story on replacing Barack Obama in the Senate is taking yet another unusual twist. A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling -- little noticed when it was issued on June 16 -- is forcing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to hold an election on Nov. 2 to fill the remainder of President Obama's Senate term. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is fighting the ruling, asking the appellate panel to reconsider because it will cause massive voter confusion to elect a lame duck senator who would serve at most a few weeks. The Senate would be out of session on some of those weeks because of the ...
Border Corruption: Drugs Now, Dirty Bombs Next?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWhile there are many complicated problems along the U.S.-Mexico border, one piece of the puzzling crisis is corruption. Sadly, Mexican drug cartels are corrupting U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at startling rates. Internal corruption cases have escalated in recent years. Since 2003, there have been 129 corruption arrests of CBP officers. Last year, there were 576 allegations of corruption. A recent hearing by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration highlighted the issue. One person gained ...
Should Democrats Be Grateful to Joe Lieberman?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Dec. 17) -- Sen. Joe Lieberman might be the most hated man in Washington right now, but he's not without his defenders. Some even say he's done President Obama a favor by insisting that the Senate health care reform bill include no public option. Liberals are enraged because the Connecticut Democrat-turned-independent supported an expansion of Medicare for years, then suddenly turned against it at the crucial moment this month. Senate Democratic leaders, scrambling to get Lieberman's vote in the race to the filibuster-proof magic number of 60, agreed to dump a plan to let people buy in to ...
New Health Vote Math Gets Worse For Reid
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs the president called Senate Democrats to the White House for a come-to-Obama meeting on health care, Majority Leader Harry Reid got some decidely mixed news about his uncommitted members, and one Republican thought to be in play. ...
Sen. Roland Burris Slapped By Senate Ethics Committee
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was slapped by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics on Friday for his changing and misleading stories about how former Gov. Rod Blagojevich came to appoint him to fill President Obama's Senate seat. In a letter, the panel concluded Burris' actions "reflected unfavorably on the Senate." ...
Roland Burris Won't Rule Out Filibuster Over Public Option
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRoland Burris, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, has been the Senate's most forceful defender of adding a public option to health care reform, stating clearly that he will not vote for a bill without a government-run insurance option. Burris went one step further this morning in an appearance on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," refusing to rule out a filibuster on the Senate floor if the public option is not included in a final health reform bill. "I'm not getting into the process at this point or telegraphing my moves on the procedural matters," Burris told host Greta Wodele Brawner ...
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