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Following a 45-minute meeting with Roland Burris, Senate Democratic leaders said Wednesday that several steps remain before they’ll decide whether to seat the former Illinois attorney general to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the upper chamber.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters in the Capitol that Senate rules dictate that Burris must have the [...]

The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is denying that Democrats have agreed to seat Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the Senate, as The Associated Press reported this morning.
“I do not know where that came from,” a Reid spokesperson wrote moments ago.
Reid and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Democrats’ No. 2 [...]

From The Associated Press: Senate leaders have caved in their efforts to block Roland Burris from replacing President-elect Barack Obama in the upper chamber. Burris had been appointed to the post last month by Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who’s facing charges that he tried to sell the seat following Obama’s promotion.
Democratic leaders feared that [...]

The crocodile tears flow so fast and furious from this Pat Buchanan column that your computer screen might get moist. Fair warning.
On [Harry Reid's] blacklist [of unacceptable choices for Barack Obama's Senate seat] were, according to the source, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Rep. Danny Davis and State Senate President Emil Jones.
What do the three have [...]

At 3:30 ET today, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board is expected to declare Al Franken the winner of his U.S. Senate race against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman, and Senate Democrats may try to seat him tomorrow when the new Congress is sworn in, according to Congressional Quarterly.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CQ [...]

In eighth-grade civics, I learned that the U.S. Senate had, and would continue to have, 100 members. Well, Mr. Miller, seems you didn’t tell me the whole story.
When the new Senate is sworn in next week, it will most likely be a team of 98, following declarations by Senate leaders that Minnesota and Illinois will [...]

Pro Publica’s Ben Protess does some digging into the past of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, who was chosen to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Blagojevich was arrested last month for scheming to sell the seat. It seems there is at least one very legitimate reason to [...]

In a press conference that can be described only as solid-gold entertainment, former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris accepted disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appointment to the US Senate Tuesday afternoon, distancing himself from the Blagojevich scandal with the claim, “I have no relationship with that situation.” (Though, he shared the stage with the governor.)
It was [...]