Ministers and the Congressman Bobby Rush (right of microphone) call for beleaguered Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's pick for Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat, Roland Burris, to be allowed to take his respective seat in the U.S. Senate without problem ahead of a prayer send-off prior to Burris' departure to Washington at the New Covenant Baptist Church on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois on January 4, 2008.