VP-elect Biden sworn in for 7th Senate term
There, for example, was a tanned and grinning Vice President-elect Joe Biden, who oddly was sworn in to a seventh Senate term, his new job notwithstanding. He'll resign from the Senate before he's sworn into higher office with President-elect Barack Obama at the end of the month, ending eight years of the Bush administration.
Biden brought the biggest Bible an ancient, leather-bound volume about six inches thick that a spokeswoman said has been in the family since 1893.
He held it by his side as the man he'll succeed, Vice President Dick Cheney, swore him in to the Senate. Biden will use it to take the oath of office this month as Obama's vice president, said his spokeswoman, Elizabeth Alexander.
And in the back of the chamber, Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton, still the junior senator from New York, chatted quietly with her seatmate, interior secretary-designate Ken Salazar of Colorado.
Signifying a Senate era gone-by were several retiring lions of the chamber, including Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in history, celebrated with customary eloquence a half-century of service in the Senate.
He said he's loved every minute of serving in a chamber he called the "morning and evening star in the American constitutional constellation."
"I look forward yes, I look forward to the next 50 years," he finished. "Amen. Amen!"
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