Sen. Roland Burris

WASHINGTON — While dodging questions about his ethics rebuke by the Senate on Friday, Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., trumpeted progress in Iraq and reported that “morale is terrific” among American soldiers there during a Monday conference call from…

Marion VA Medical Center

WASHINGTON — Veterans’ Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki will walk into a room of angry Illinois members of Congress Wednesday morning.

Shinseki will meet with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and other livid Illinois elected officials in Washington to address persistent…

Madigan

My colleague Kevin McDermott just posted this report that says Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is being pressured by the national Democratic Party and, perhaps, the White House to run for Senate.

Note that incumbent Roland Burris, who was appointed in a controversial…

Sen. Burris

WASHINGTON - Illinois Sen. Roland Burris doesn’t have a lot to say in Washington as a first-termer who arrived in the Capitol with cloud over his head from his associations with cast-out former governor Rod Blagojevich.

But Burris, a former attorney general in…

President Barack Obama’s spokesman just announced that the president now favors an investigation into Sen. Roland Burris’ conflicting statements. Check out my story here.

Quinn, right, with Sens. Dick Durbin (left) and Roland Burris

WASHINGTON — New Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn staged his national coming-out party this afternoon, meeting briefly with President Barack Obama and visiting members of Illinois’ congressional delegation in the Capitol.

Concerns sounded during the…

Sen.-designee Roland Burris

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats probably wonder now why they took such a hard line two weeks ago.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate’s No. 2, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said that they are preparing to seat Roland Burris this week as Illinois…

Burris

WASHINGTON – On the day the new 111th Congress gets sworn in, this is NOT how the Democrats wanted to celebrate their expanded majorities in the Senate and House.

A little while ago, Roland Burris, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s selection to replace Barack Obama in…

Franken

WASHINGTON — Roland Burris isn’t the only would-be U.S. senator whose arrival in Washington will be scrutinized.

Al Franken, a Democrat who left the wacky world of comedy for the wacky world of politics, is preparing to take his seat as the…

This quick clip captures Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announcing today his intention to appoint former state Attorney General Roland Burris to fill the Senate seat vacated by president-elect Barack Obama.

What’s not shown is Burris getting peppered…