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Durbin Takes Issue With Report on His Role in Illinois Senate Appointment

By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
June 1, 2009, 6:47 p.m.

The office of Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Monday took issue with an Associated Press story suggesting that Durbin gave then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) tacit approval to appoint a political rival to fill President Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat.

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