Burris Acts as Senate’s Outsider

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff

Nov. 9, 2009, 12 a.m.

After months of living under an ethics cloud, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) has successfully changed the media’s focus from whether he improperly accepted his Senate seat from a now-disgraced former governor to whether he will be a liberal rabble-rouser during the chamber’s upcoming health care debate.

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