AP – Finally joining the Senate, Democrat Al Franken envisions playing the “people’s proxy” during Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court hearings. Franken, awaiting “an awfully emotional” Tuesday when he is sworn in, is joining the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is to begin hearings next week on President Barack Obama’s first nominee to the high court.

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