Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Impeachement and appoinment news!

What goes on in Springfield today? Well the 96th Illinois General Assembly will be inaugurated. After the new state House of Reps gets inaugurated they'll vote again on articles of impeachment for Gov. Blagojevich.

The more awkward moment for today is in the state Senate. Gov. Blagojevich will preside and take nominations for Senate President, however, he will not swear Senators into their respective offices. He will preside over the roll call vote for Senate President. Then the Senate President will address the chamber.

The Senate will also approve rules over the coming session, but also look at rules for the Governor's impeachment. Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald of the state Supreme Court will be sworn in to preside over the Governor's impeachment trial in the Senate. The Senators will also be sworn in as jurors for the coming impeachment trial.

Also Senator-designate Roland Burris will be sworn in as a US Senator this week. Burris is known to be a resident of the Sixth Ward and was acknowledged in the Alderman's latest newsletter. Anyway whatever credentials he had was finally in order so he can be seated and inaugurated.

Burris also paid a visit to the City Council on Tuesday.

Also yesterday the CapFax looks at Sen. Dick Durbin's role in this whole appointment controversy.

1 comment:

  1. Its about time Mr. Burris is seated. However, I find it very interesting that Mr. Durbin was still very reluctant to assist Mr. Burris in taking his seat as a junior Senator from ILL.

    My guess is that, if this happened before Mr. Durbin's relection campaign, don't you think he would of been all over to welcome Mr. Burris?

    Do you know where I am going with this? Why hasn't anyone stepped in to say anything about Mr. Durbin?

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