The audience laughed, and Burris quickly corrected his error.
Apparently, it wasn't the first time Burris had made that slip. He told the crowd at a window factory on Chicago's North Side that he made the same faux pas at a committee hearing once.
Burris slips up in introducing Durbin
April 27, 2009 (CHICAGO) The 71-year-old Burris introduced Durbin at an event Monday with Vice President Joe Biden. Instead of calling his 64-year-old colleague Illinois' senior senator, Burris called him "the senior citizen of the great state of Illinois."
