The Illinois House committee considering the removal of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has rejected a request from the governor’s lawyer to subpoena two top advisers to President-elect Barack Obama, the committee’s chairwoman said Saturday.

The United States attorney in Chicago, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, asked the committee in a letter on Friday not to subpoena the two advisers, Rahm Emanuel, who will be Mr. Obama’s chief of staff, and Valerie Jarrett. Mr. Fitzgerald also asked that Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, and Nils Larsen, an executive vice president of the Tribune Company, not be called to testify.

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