Senate Holds Hearing On Structuring National Security At The White House(Roland Burris)

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) (C) arrives at a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill February 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Burris is the newly-appointed junior senator from Illinois who replaced President Barack Obama. Witnesses offered differing points of view on whether the president's Homeland Security Council and National Security Council should be folded into one bureaucratic body.

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