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Vote On Burris Coming Tuesday
Illinois' senior U.S. senator says the Senate has no plans to allow Senate appointee Roland Burris in.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) ended six days of avoiding interviews by appearing on the ABC-TV show This Week, insisting the Senate has the final say on who its members will be. "The governor of Illinois has the state constitutional authority to fill the vacancy," he said. "The Senate of the United States has the U.S. constitutional responsibility to decide if Mr. Burris was chosen in a proper manner, and that is what we're going to do."

Also on the Sunday talk shows, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he plans to speak with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday to try to work out a bi-partisan solution. On Sunday, McConnell said there's only one solution - a special election.

Reid also denied telling the governor that three lawmakers - U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Chicago), U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Chicago) and Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, all of them black - would be unacceptable appointees. He says Blagojevich is "making all this up."

Burris is traveling to Washington on Monday. Swearing-in for new senators is scheduled for Tuesday.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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