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113th Congress

Saturday, January 5, 2013

PHOTOS: Virginian Tim Kaine Sworn In to U.S. Senate

Kaine said Thursday he is "rested and ready."

Tim Kaine was sworn in Thursday as the newest Senator from Virginia. Vice President Joe Biden presided over the mock ceremony after the official swearing-in on the Senate floo. Anne Holton, Kaine's wife, proudly held a bible as her husband took his oath to serve as Virginia's junior Senator at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  "I feel wonderful — rested and ready," Kaine said at a reception in his honor at the Hart Senate Office Building. "Life doesn't happen unless you are able to listen and compromise. With this beginning of the 113th Congress, the Senate has 15 newcomers ... and I've watched group dynamics just as you have, and when you have that much change it opens the windows and rescrambles assumptions." Kaine, a former governor…

Friday, January 4, 2013

Rep. Gerry Connolly Sworn In for Third Term

Virginia's 11th District congressman surrounded by family and friends at ceremony on first day of 113th Congress.

Speaker of the House John Boehner swore in Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-11th) Thursday for Connolly's third term in office. Connolly was re-elected Nov. 6, beating out Republican Chris Perkins. Connolly was surrounded Thursday by family and friends at a swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill. The oath of office officiated by the speaker is ceremonial, conducted after an official swearing-in of the entire Congress at noon on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The first day of the 113th Congress Thursday came on the heels of a tumultuous debate over the "fiscal cliff," voted on by the House on New Year's Day. Though he had reservations, Congressman Connolly was the only House member in Virginia to vote for the bill, siding with …

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