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[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 9 (Thursday, January 15, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S563-S564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

               CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT AND CREDENTIALS

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a certificate of 
appointment and related credentials to fill the vacancy created by the 
resignation of former Senator Barak Obama of Illinois. The certificate 
and credentials, the Chair is advised, are in the form suggested by the 
Senate or contain all the essential requirements of the form suggested 
by the Senate.
  If there be no objection, the reading of the certificate and 
credentials will be waived, and they will be printed in full in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                           State of Illinois

                          Executive Department

                         Springfield, Illinois

                       certificate of appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of Illinois, I, Rod R. Blagojevich, the governor of 
     said State, do hereby appoint Roland Burris a Senator from 
     said State to represent said State in the Senate of the 
     United States until the vacancy therein caused by the 
     resignation of Barack Obama, is filled by election as 
     provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Rod R. Blagojevich at 
     Chicago, Illinois this 31st day of December, in the year of 
     our Lord 2008.
       By the governor:
                                               Rod R. Blagojevich,
     Governor.
                                  ____

                           State of Illinois

                          Executive Department

                              certificate

     To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greetings:
       I, Jesse White, Secretary of State of the State of 
     Illinois, do hereby certify that the attached is a true and 
     accurate copy of a certificate of appointment made by the 
     Governor of the State of Illinois and duly filed in the 
     Office of the Secretary of State of Illinois.
       In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and cause to be 
     affixed the Great Seal of the

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     State of Illinois. Done at the City of Springfield, January 
     9, 2009.
                                                      Jesse White,
                                               Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]
                                  ____

                           State of Illinois

                          Executive Department

                         Springfield, Illinois

                       certificate of appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of Illinois, I, Rod R. Blagojevich, the governor of 
     said State, do hereby appoint Roland Burris a Senator from 
     said State to represent said State in the Senate of the 
     United States until the vacancy therein caused by the 
     resignation of Barack Obama, is filled by election as 
     provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Rod R. Blagojevich, 
     and our seal hereto affixed at Chicago, Illinois this 31st 
     day of December, in the year of our Lord 2008.
       By the governor:
                                               Rod R. Blagojevich,
                                                         Governor.
     FILED
     INDEX DEPARTMENT
     JAN 09 2009
     IN THE OFFICE OF
     SECRETARY OF STATE

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