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* January 2009: Two Senate seats were disputed when the Congress convened:
*# An appointment dispute over the [[List of United States senators from Illinois#Class 3|Illinois seat]] vacated by President [[Barack Obama]] arose following [[Governor of Illinois|Illinois Governor]] [[Rod Blagojevich]]'s [[Rod Blagojevich corruption charges|solicitation of bribes]] in exchange for an appointment to the Senate. [[Roland Burris]] (D) was appointed to the seat on December 31, 2008, but his credentials were not accepted until January 12, 2009.[[File:111th Congress House Member Pin.png|thumb|111th U.S. Congress House of Representatives Member Pin]]
*# An election dispute over the [[List of United States senators from Minnesota#Class 2|Minnesota seat]] previously held by [[Norm Coleman]] (R), between Coleman and challenger [[Al Franken]] (D), was decided on June 30, 2009, in favor of Franken.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/Election+certificate.pdf?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiacyKUUr |title=Certificate of Election |date=June 30, 2009 |publisher=Office of the Minnesota Governor, via StarTribune.com |access-date=July 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002102939/http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/Election+certificate.pdf?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiacyKUUr |archive-date=October 2, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Franken's admission gave the Senate Democratic caucus sixty votes, enough to defeat a [[filibuster in the United States Senate|filibuster]] in a party-line vote.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Franken's Win Bolsters Democratic Grip in Senate - NYTimes.com|url = http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/us/politics/01minnesota.html?referrer=|newspaper = The New York Times| date=June 30, 2009 |access-date = July 14, 2015| last1=Davey | first1=Monica | last2=Hulse | first2=Carl }}</ref>
* January 8, 2009: [[Joint session of the United States Congress|Joint session]] counted the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] votes of the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]].<ref name=HJ100>See {{USPL|110|430}}. Section 1 sets the beginning of the first session of the 111th Congress. Section 2 sets the date for counting Electoral College votes.</ref>
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*[[Members of the 111th United States Congress]]
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