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  • Biden announces veteran diplomat William Burns as nominee for CIA director


President-elect Joe Biden early Monday announced former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns as his nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Burns is a former career diplomat with more than three decades of experience in the Foreign Service. He retired in 2014 and currently serves as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has served in various national security roles across both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Burns was U.S. ambassador to Russia between 2005 and 2008 and was U.S. ambassador to Jordan from 1998 to 2001.: Biden announces veteran diplomat William Burns as nominee for CIA director | TheHill


Biden Cabinet tracker: Which positions have and haven'''t been filled - Axios

  • Biden's inauguration day: What will look different, who will attend, and what will go virtual


CNN reported that Biden will arrive at the nation's capital the same way he did for decades as a senator: The Amtrak train.

Biden’s affinity for Amtrak is well-known because of his daily commute for 36 years between Wilmington and Washington, D.C., while serving as a senator from Delaware. The railroad estimated he had traveled 2.1 million miles on its rails.

He will still be sworn in on the steps of the Capitol Building. Despite fears that pro-Trump rioters would return to Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, Biden insisted he would proceed with his swearing-in ceremony as planned.

“I am not afraid to take the oath outside," he said Monday.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will then lay a wreath after they take the oath of office and conduct a Pass in Review inspection of the troops at the Capitol. They will be joined by their partners, Dr. Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff.

The Bidens will receive a presidential escort from 15th Street to the White House after his swearing-in on the West Front of the Capitol. The escort will include representatives of every branch of the military, including the U.S. Army Band, a Joint Service Honor Guard, and the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard and Fife and Drum Corps from the 3rd U.S. Infantry “The Old Guard.”

What is different this year?

Biden's inauguration, and the traditional events surrounding it, will be a scaled-down event because of the health risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic.: Joe Biden inauguration: What we know about January 20 - https://twitter.com/BidenInaugural - Biden - Harris Inauguration

  • Harris team says it was blindsided by VP-elect’s Vogue cover



Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine, but her team says there’s a problem: the shot of the country’s soon-to-be No. 2 leader isn’t what both sides had agreed upon, her team says.


Instead of the powder blue power suit Harris wore for her cover shoot, the first African American woman elected vice president is instead seen in more casual attire and wearing Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, which she sometimes wore on the campaign trail.: https://apnews.com/article/kamala-ha...0a7ee03759aa10 - https://www.vogue.com/article/kamala...-february-2021


  • Marc E. Elias - Republicans dismiss another of their failed 2020 lawsuits.


Trump and his allies are 1-64 in post election litigation.: https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...07003708284929

Just for fun.

  • Lawmaker to unveil bill ensuring nothing — 'no airport, no highway, no school' — is named after Trump


Rep. Linda Sánchez says she's poised to introduce legislation that would ban virtually everything — "even a bench" — from bearing President Trump's name.

“I don't believe that a seditious occupant of the White House should have — ever have anything named after him," the California Democrat said of Trump in an interview with People published Monday, referring to Trump's efforts to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election and his words of encouragement to a crowd of supporters before they laid siege to the Capitol on Wednesday.

“I don't think that he deserves any of the benefits that are conferred on prior presidents,” Sánchez said.: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-kno...ort-no-highway