Biden to Resign Senate Jan. 15
Vice President-elect Joe Biden will resign from his Senate seat on January 15, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Friday.
Biden, who was just sworn into his latest term earlier this week, will resign at 5:00 p.m. that day, Reid announced while reading a letter from Biden on the Senate floor today.
The vice president-elect is currently in Southeast Asia with other Senators on a foreign policy-related tour.
Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) will appoint former Biden chief of staff Ted Kaufman to fill the vacancy, an appointment some have suggested is a placeholder until Biden’s son, Beau, the attorney general of Delaware, returns from service in Iraq to stand election for the seat.
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