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Final touches are being put on the massive inaugural platform. The sound system is being tested. Huge Americans flags have been draped from the building. Thousands of white folding chairs have been laid out on the West Front. And security fences and barriers are being erected around the perimeter.

At 11:30 a.m. Monday, all eyes will be on the Capitol where President Obama will take the oath of office for his final term. It won't be as big of a party as his historic swearing-in four years ago, but hundreds of thousands of people will still jam the Mall to take part in the celebration.

STILL A THRILL THE SECOND TIME - "Crammed on an overcrowded Mall on a cold January day? Been there. Watched America's first African American president take the oath of office? Done that. Inauguration mouse pad featuring the Obama family? Got one. Willing to do it all over again? Oh yeah," The Washington Post's Steve Hendrix and DeNeen L. Brown write on the Metro front. "'There is no way I'm not going to be there again,' declared Patricia Leake, a restaurant management consultant from Raleigh, N.C., who began planning her second trip to an Obama inauguration the day after the November election. 'I don't expect it to be as historical as the first one. But it will be exciting, and it will show
the faith we still have in him.'

-- "The kickoff to President Obama's second term is expected to be a significantly smaller affair than the monumental launch of his first, when nearly 2 million celebrants flooded the Mall, the parade route and dozens of balls and parties. But hordes of people who made it in 2009 are getting back into their puffy coats and texting gloves to see history repeat itself. Some just want to cheer their candidate after a hard-fought campaign. Some are coming to revel in the added validation that comes with being the country's first reelected African American president. Others are bringing family members who were too young to appreciate it before - and who might not get another chance. 'Who knows
when we will have another black president,' said Leake, an African American who will have four nieces with her on the bus from North Carolina this time. 'I want them to witness this so they will remember it and work to make sure that it does happen again.'"
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REID SEEKS MIDDLE PATH ON FILIBUSTER REFORM - Manu Raju reports for the hometown paper: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) doesn't plan to advance a 'talking filibuster' proposal envisioned by liberals who want sweeping changes to the stodgy Senate. But he still may invoke what critics call the 'nuclear option' to change Senate rules that would limit the use of the filibuster, force senators to hold the floor in certain situations and require those stalling legislation to deliver 41 votes, several people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The contents of a filibuster reform package are not yet finalized, sources say, and Reid is still trying to cut a bipartisan deal with
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to avert a partisan showdown on the floor next week. But Reid seems to have discarded one of the more far-reaching proposals sought by liberals - forcing senators to actually carry out a filibuster - because of fears that the plan would effectively kill the potent delaying tactic used frequently by the minority party."
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THE LOOMING DEMOCRATIC DIVIDE - Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman report for the hometown PAPER: "As President Barack Obama approaches his second inaugural on Monday, he presides over a party that has largely papered over its divisions for the past four years thanks to the president's commanding popularity. But almost as soon as the echo of Obama's inaugural address fades and he becomes a lame duck, Democrats are going to have to face a central and unresolved question about their political identity: Will they become a center-left, Democratic Leadership Council-by-a-different-name party or return to a populist, left-leaning approach that mirrors their electoral coalition?

-- "An immediate answer may come in the entitlement debate and whether Obama and congressional Democrats will agree to any Social Security or Medicare benefit cuts to achieve deficit reduction, said a wide-ranging group of Democratic elected officials and strategists. 'In the short term that's the flash point,' said longtime Democratic consultant Paul Begala. But as moderate Republicans become an ever rarer breed and more centrists find a home in the Democratic coalition, the party also must reconcile exactly who they are on a broader panoply of economic issues including Wall Street regulation and public employees. As 2016 grows nearer, and their presidential hopefuls begin openly
maneuvering, Democrats must decide whether they want to be principally known as the party of Rahm Emanuel or the party of Elizabeth Warren."
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RYAN DISPENSES ADVICE ON BATTLING OBAMA - Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer report from the GOP retreat in Williamsburg, Va.: "House Republicans came here with a few goals in mind, but none more important than beginning to develop a consensus on how to battle President Barack Obama on the debt ceiling, government funding and automatic spending cuts. Rep. Paul Ryan to the rescue. The Wisconsin Republican, his party's former vice presidential nominee and current chairman of the Budget Committee, is advocating for a short-term debt ceiling increase to try to force the White House and Senate Democrats to wrestle down the nation's ballooning deficit. In a closed meeting of House Republicans, and
later to reporters, Ryan said Republicans need to come to grips with the fact that they are the only Republicans in power in Washington. In the closed legislative strategy session, he said the GOP should avoid overpromising and underdelivering, according to five sources present. Instead, House Republicans should work to control expectations about what they can extract from Obama, and then people will be pleased by the result."
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CONFUSION AS ALGERIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS TURNS DEADLY - The New York Times' Adam Nossiter, Alan Cowell and Rick Gladstone report: "Britain said on Friday that an Algerian military operation against kidnappers in the Sahara was not over and the fate of some captives remained unclear a day after Algeria mounted an assault on heavily armed fighters holding American and other hostages at a remote gas field facility. The operation, which Algerian authorities launched on Thursday without consulting foreign governments whose citizens were working at the plant, was reported to have freed captives and killed kidnappers but left some hostages dead. Foreign leaders scrambled to find out the fates of their
citizens. But there was no official word on Friday on the number of hostages who had been freed, killed or were still held captive. Estimates of the foreign casualties ranged from 4 to 35, though one Algerian official said the higher figure was 'exaggerated.' Reuters reported on Friday that an American-registered plane landed at an airstrip 30 miles from the gas facility, possibly to evacuate American citizens."
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--AP breaks down which nations where the hostages were reportedly from:

- ALGERIA: Hundreds of Algerians worked at the gas plant, but the Algerian media say most were released.

- NORWAY: Eight Norwegian employees of Statoil remain unaccounted-for.

- UNITED STATES: Seven Americans were hostages, the militants said, but they claimed only two survived the Algerian strafing Thursday. A U.S. official said late Thursday that while some Americans escaped, other Americans remain either held or unaccounted for.

- BRITAIN: British Prime Minister David Cameron says 30 Britons were unaccounted for Thursday but that number is now 'significantly reduced.' One Briton was confirmed killed in the initial attack on Wednesday.

- JAPAN: JGC Corp, which provides services at the complex, confirmed seven Japanese employees were safe and 10 others were unaccounted for. Ten non-Japanese employees are also alive, it said.

- PHILIPPINES: Algeria's state news agency said two Filipino hostages were killed. Philippine Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said Friday at least one Filipino escaped with injuries during the military operation and he had no information about any fatalities.

- MALAYSIA: Two Malaysians were held, the government says.

- IRELAND: A 36-year-old Irish electrician was among the hostages but managed to escape.

- FRANCE: President Francois Hollande said there are French hostages but gave no exact number.

- ROMANIA: Romania's Foreign Ministry says Romanians are among hostages.

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TODAY IN CONGRESS - The Senate is out this week. The House is also out today with House Republicans attending their annual retreat in Williamsburg, Va.

WITH DREAMLINERS GROUNDED, BOEING REACHES OUT TO HILL ALLIES - Scott Wong reports: "Boeing suffered a blow to its multibillion-dollar aircraft program and corporate reputation in recent days, but it has one big advantage: Friends in high places, and an army of lobbyists assuring regulators and lawmakers that the aerospace company is doing all it can to address the safety problems with its 787 Dreamliner. Boeing has powerful allies in the Obama administration and on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, sending millions of dollars each year to lawmakers' campaign coffers and employing thousands of people at plants in Washington state and South Carolina. Those ties could come into play as
lawmakers weigh whether to launch investigations into the Dreamliner's troubles and the updated certification process the FAA created for the state-of-the-art planes.

--"Washington Sen. Patty Murray, perhaps Boeing's most high-profile champion, was expected to call FAA Administrator Michael Huerta on Thursday evening to make sure his agency has all the information it needs to carry out its investigation into battery-related fires, sources said. And Boeing engineers met with staffers to Washington state's 12-member congressional delegation to better explain problems with the 787's lithium-ion batteries."
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THE EDUCATION OF STEVEN CHU - Coral Davenport writes for National Journal: "The imminent departure of Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlights the political struggle President Obama has faced in trying to enact even a portion of the sweeping clean-energy and climate change agenda he envisioned when he ran for the White House in 2008. Obama tapped the Nobel physicist to lead his fight to stop global warming and transform the nation's energy economy but the broad climate bill the president hoped would become part of his legacy never made it through Congress and Chu later found himself embroiled in the political controversy over the bankrupt solar company Solyndra. Several people close to the
administration have said Chu was not planning to stay on in a second Obama administration. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that the secretary's departure could be announced as early as next week."
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--Bloomberg: "Energy Secretary Chu Said to Plan Departure from Cabinet"
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WaPo EDITORIAL BOARD: RUBIO STEPS UP ON IMMIGRATION - The newspaper's lead editorial this morning: "SEN. MARCO RUBIO, the Florida Republican in whom some GOP activists have invested presidential hopes for 2016, has seized on the issue of immigration, hoping to stake a claim to leadership in the coming national debate and to revive Republicans' dismal standing among Hispanics. What's striking about his plan, outlined so far in the media rather than in legislation, is that it appears to depart from President Obama's own approach in details, not principles. Both agree on the logic and inevitability of amnesty for 11 million undocumented immigrants (though neither uses the word
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-- "In fact, nothing in Mr. Rubio's proposal is terribly novel; it's a tweaked version of what many Democrats have wanted for years. It includes tough border controls; employment verification; a workable guest-worker program; and more visas for highly skilled science, tech and engineering graduates. Mr. Rubio even said that he would not insist on chopping his proposals into separate bills, in recognition that the White House and immigration advocates will accept nothing short of a package deal.

-- "But the centerpiece of Mr. Rubio's plan, a pathway to citizenship with stages, is new for him. As a candidate for the Senate in 2010, he denounced amnesty for immigrants without papers. His position now, labels notwithstanding, represents a shift. It also requires guts. ... Mr. Rubio, one of just three Hispanics in the Senate, has made clear he's willing to lead. The question in the coming months is whether his party's mainstream, in Congress and state capitals, can be coaxed toward moderation."
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--Rubio will name Jamie Fly, head of the conservative think tank Foreign Policy Initiative, as his counselor for foreign and national security affairs, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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PELOSI CHIEF TO RETIRE AFTER 38 YEARS - John Bresnahan reports for POLITICO: "John Lawrence, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff, is retiring on Feb. 1 after 38 years on Capitol Hill. Lawrence will be replaced as Pelosi's top aide by Nadeam Elshami, currently the communications director and senior adviser. Elshami worked for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) before moving to Pelosi's office in 2007. Other senior Pelosi staffers, including George Kundanis, Diane Dewhurst and Drew Hammill, will move up or receive expanded responsibilities inside her office. The 63-year-old Lawrence came to the House in the mid-1970s as an idealistic young staffer who
became politically active protesting the Vietnam War. He ends his career after having helped enact laws on a number of key issues, many of them rallying points for the progressive movement during the past four decades - water policy, energy, the environment, education reform, child welfare, workers' rights, the federal budget, the treatment of the disabled and minorities."
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KERRY HEARING SET FOR JAN. 24 - The Boston Globe reports: "Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry will appear before fellow members of the Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 24 for his confirmation hearing to be secretary of state, according to a Senate aide. The hearing will be chaired by Senator Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who is expected to become chairman upon Kerry's elevation to President Obama's Cabinet and his subsequent resignation from the Senate. The committee is expected to make the official announcement of the confirmation hearing on Thursday. The panel will also announce that outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her last appearance before the panel, will
testify on Jan. 23 on the investigation into the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in September. While Kerry will officially remain chairman of the committee until he is confirmed, he will not preside over the Benghazi hearing, 'because he does not want to put his colleagues in an awkward situation,' said the aide, who was not authorized to speak publicly."
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THURSDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - So many correct answers yesterday, but David Morgenstern was first to correctly answer that Newt Gingrich beat out Rep. Ed Madigan (R-Ill.) in the race to become House GOP Whip. He later became secretary of agriculture under George H.W. Bush.

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