The Senate’s Making a Big Mistake on Burris By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist Posted January 7, 2009 at 1:00am Facebook Twitter Email Reddit Could Have Been Different Obama’s Mistake, Too Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears weekly in CQ Politics on Wednesday. Recent Stories Special counsel takes Trump immunity issue to Supreme Court Hispanic Caucus warns Biden, Democrats on potential border deal Indigenous peoples’ dissenting views on Arctic drilling fuels debate Baseline metric offers Democrats hope for retaking the House Rothenberg’s best and worst of 2023 Johnson sets up formal impeachment vote McCarthy never sought