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Roland Burris expresses his readiness to take on the responsibilities of the Senate.

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Aug 5, 2010

I come to the floor today to speak about justice and the Department of Agriculture. Let me go back a few years. Though civil rights legislation in the 1960s was supposed to have outlawed racial discrimination, at least on the Federal…

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Jun 16, 2010

on a hot day in the summer of 1776, delegates from across the American Colonies gathered in Philadelphia to cast off the yoke of tyranny and assert the fundamental right of self-government. At that moment, when our Republic was born, our…

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Nov 15, 2010

Because those packages were headed to synagogues allegedly in Chicago.

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Sep 14, 2010

I am so grateful to the distinguished Senator from Louisiana who has fought so hard to get this bill through the process of cloture, including an amendment attached to that piece of legislation which makes available $30 billion for the…

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