Senator Burns R - Montana suggested to resign ** Abramoff scandal** [View All]

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HELENA — Jack Abramoff, the Washington lobbyist at the center of a congressional influence-peddling scandal, told Vanity Fair magazine that "every appropriation we wanted, we got" from U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns' committee.

"Our staffs were as close as they could be," Abramoff told Vanity Fair, which hit newsstands in New York and Los Angeles Wednesday with a story on Abramoff headlined "Washington's Invisible Man."



State Senate President Jon Tester, one of Burns' two main Democratic opponents, called Wednesday for Burns to resign. And Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, suggested that the state Republican Party would be better off if Burns stepped aside and let Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg run in his place.

"It may be their best chance to hold the seat," he said.