这是乔·拜登总统和副总统卡马拉·哈里斯执政的第二天。

参议院通过弃权，为国防部长提名投票铺平道路

参议院已经确认退役将军劳埃德·奥斯汀众议院周四以69票对27票通过该法案后不久，放弃担任国防部长。

 

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退役将军劳埃德·奥斯汀在听证会上向参议院军事委员会作证

这位四星上将于2016年从陆军退役，没有达到要求军官在担任文职职位之前必须退出服役七年的要求。

麦康奈尔预计将提议推迟弹劾审判

共和党参议员说，参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔预计将提议推迟前总统唐纳德·特朗普的提名弹劾审判当他在周四晚些时候向参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默提出一个框架时。

这一延迟旨在给仍在崛起的特朗普法律团队时间做准备。

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2021年1月19日，DC，参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔离开参议院。

 

参议员迈克·布劳恩。他说，他从当天早些时候的一次谈话中了解到，审判要到“2月中旬的某个时候才会开始，因为这个过程在众议院发生，发展得太快了，不符合你在参议院审判中准备辩护所需的时间。”

得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁告诉国会山记者，“我认为，为了公平对待任何被指控犯有可弹劾罪行的人，需要一些公平的程序。”

众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林介绍针对乔·拜登的弹劾文章

共和党众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林。她没有参加拜登的就职典礼，是众议院推翻选举结果的领导人之一。她说，她已经提交了针对拜登的弹劾文章，针对拜登的案件“范围广泛，内容详细”。

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众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林在众议院就

美国广播公司新闻已经向格林的办公室询问了弹劾条款的文本，但没有得到回应。

任何成员都可以提交弹劾条款，但不能保证他们在议会或众议院司法委员会有投票权。

众议院通过弃权书，允许拜登的人选担任国防部长

众议院通过了一项弃权声明，允许退役将军劳埃德·奥斯汀担任国防部长，如果参议院批准的话。这位退役的四星上将于2016年从陆军退役，没有达到军官在担任文职职务之前必须退役七年的要求。

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拜登提名的退役美国陆军将军劳埃德·奥斯汀抵达白宫

周四以326票对78票通过的给予奥斯汀豁免的投票是两党的，少数民主党人和数十名共和党人投票反对豁免，理由是对允许第二个职业军官代替平民管理五角大楼的持久关切。

Biden's 1st 100 days live updates: Fauci calls it 'liberating' to serve under Biden

This is Day Two of the administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Senate passes waiver, paving way for defense secretary nomination vote

The Senate has confirmedretired Gen. Lloyd Austin'swaiver to serve as Secretary of Defense shorty after the House passed the measure Thursday by a vote of 69-27.

The four-star general retired from the Army in 2016, short of the requirement that requires commissioned officers to be out of the service for seven years before taking a civilian post.

McConnell expected to propose a delay of impeachment trial

GOP senators say Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to propose a delay of former President Donald Trump’simpeachment trialwhen he pitches a framework later Thursday to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

The delay is designed to give the still-emerging Trump legal team time to prepare.

Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., said it's his understanding from a conversation earlier in the day that the trial will not start "until sometime mid-February due to the fact that the process, as it occurred in the House, evolved so quickly, and that it is not in line with the time you need to prepare to prepare for a defense in a Senate trial."

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Capitol Hill reporters, “Ithink, in fairness to anybody who's accused of impeachable offenses, there needs to be some fair process."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces impeachment articles against Joe Biden

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who did not attend Biden's inauguration and was one of the leaders of the effort to overturn the election results in the House, says she has filed impeachment articles against Biden and that the case against him "is vast and detailed."

ABC News has asked Greene's office for the text of the impeachment articles but has not heard back.

Any member can file impeachment articles, however they are not guaranteed a vote on the floor or in the House Judiciary Committee.

House passes waiver to allow Biden's pick to serve as defense secretary

The House has passed a waiver allowingretired Gen. Lloyd Austinto serve as defense secretary, if confirmed by the Senate. The retired four-star general retired from the Army in 2016, short of the requirement that commissioned officers be out of the service for seven years before taking a civilian post.

The Thursday vote to grant Austin a waiver, which passed 326-78, was bipartisan, with a handful of Democrats voting with dozens of Republicans against the waiver, citing abiding concerns with permitting a second career military officer to run the Pentagon in the place of a civilian.