Hutchison to keep Senate seat

AUSTIN, TX Campaign officials provided The Associated Press a copy of her prepared speech to Republican women in Galveston on Saturday. In it, Hutchison will say she is stepping down in 2010 regardless of who wins the Republican primary for governor. But there are too many important issues facing Congress for her to quit this fall as she had planned, she added.

The senator said in the written speech that she "will be resigning this Senate seat" next year. "Make no mistake, this is going to happen," Hutchison plans to say.

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