It’s Official: Barack Obama is no Longer a U.S. Senator
by Bonney Kapp
CHICAGO - In a letter dated November 18th to the Vice President and President of the U.S. Senate, Richard Cheney, Barack Obama officially resigned his seat in the Senate chamber.
“This letter is to inform you that I resigned from the United States Senate, effective November 16, 2008, in order to prepare for my duties as President of the United States,” the president-elect wrote in his succinct letter.
The Secretary of the Senate’s office told FOX News that his resignation has been accepted earlier this afternoon, and the President-elect is officially no longer a Senator.
The Governor of Illinois, who received a similar letter from Mr. Obama last week, will now appoint a successor to fill out the remainder of the junior senator’s term through 2010.
Good thing he wrote the letter. Otherwise, merely by observing his attendance in the chamber, no one would have known.
ReplyDeleteWell, now he can't vote for his bills to pass through the senate to get to him. He can only "hope."
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