Obama in 'hopes and dreams' pledge
Updated on 13 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama said he hoped to fulfil "the simple hopes and common dreams of all Americans" as he announced his resignation from the US Senate on Thursday.
The Illinois senator's resignation, which was expected, will reduce the Democratic Party's majority to a bare minimum for the so-called "lame duck" session which begins next week.
America's first black president-elect called his four-year Senate term "one of the highest honours and privileges" of his life.
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