Senate Vacancies the Blago Amendment Sen. Russ Feingold Proposes to Amend the Constitution to Require Special Elections When a Senate Seat Comes Open Midterm. It's Overkill.

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As a politician, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is grand theater, as attest his rounds of the television shows to defend himself. His appointment of Roland Burris to fill the vacated U.S. Senate seat of President Barack Obama also was theatrical, though scantly registering on the statesmanship-o-meter.

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold proposes that the curtain come down on this particular sort of theater. The Wisconsin Democrat will, he said, introduce a constitutional amendment that will require special elections to fill vacant Senate seats.

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Senate Vacancies the Blago Amendment Sen. Russ Feingold Proposes to Amend the Constitution to Require Special Elections When a Senate Seat Comes Open Midterm. It's Overkill.

It's true: The governor never should have filled the Illinois seat. Federal authorities accuse him of, among other things...

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