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11-09-2010, 02:29 PM #1
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Kirk Can’t Join Senate at Start of Lame Duck
By Danny Yadron
Republican Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois might not become Sen. Mark Kirk as soon as he would like.
Senator-elect Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) c(Photo by Frank Polich/Getty Images) State officials told Washington Wire that the five-term Republican, who defeated state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias in the contest for President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat, can’t fill his new post until Nov. 23, a week after the Senate convenes for the lame-duck session. The reason for the gap: Illinois election officials need time to certify the vote.
Mr. Kirk will miss a week’s worth of cloture votes, a bummer for the congressman who campaigned that he would be the “42nd Republican senator, with the opportunity to put the brakes on any lame-duck overreach.â€
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