Here is the Inauguration 2009 Schedule. The Inauguration 2009 Schedule of events for Barack Obama run Saturday through Tuesday.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2009

“We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial” on HBO. The performers include:

Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am and Stevie Wonder.

“Historical passages” during the concert include Jamie Foxx, Martin Luther King III, Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington.

MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009

Youth Concert in downtown Washington, D.C. Free, but tickets required.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009

Musical Selections: The United States Marine Band, followed by The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus
Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks: Senator Dianne Feinstein
Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren
Musical Selection: Aretha Franklin
Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will be sworn into office by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the Honorable John Paul Stevens
Musical Selection: John Williams, composer/arranger with Itzhak Perlman, (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet)
President-elect Barack H. Obama will take the Oath of Office, using President Lincoln’s Inaugural Bible, administered by the Chief Justice of the United States, the Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr.
Inaugural Address
Poem: Elizabeth Alexander
Benediction: The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
The National Anthem: The United States Navy Band “Sea Chanters”

Afterwards – 10 official Inaugural Balls.

For the latest information on the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, please visit www.pic2009.org.

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LIVE! Watch LIVE STREAMING VIDEO of the Clinton Senate Confirmation Hearing right now! Watch online LIVE the Clinton Confirmation for Secretary of State Senate Hearing.

Sen. Hillary Clinton is speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Chariman is Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Other leaders have already praised Clinton.

“America cannot solve the most pressing problems on our own, and the world cannot solve them without America,” she said. “I believe American leadership has been wanting, but is still wanted.”

“We must use what has been called `smart power,’ the full range of tools at our disposal. With `smart power,’ diplomacy will be the vanguard of foreign policy.”

Watch the live video below.

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Julius Genachowski is Obama’s pick to as FCC Chair. Obama has chosen Julius Genachowski to lead the FCC.

Genachowski is Obama’s former classmate at Harvard Law. Genachowski is also former FCC chief counsel under Reed Hundt who served during the Clinton Administration.

Other positions were held at IAC/InterActiveCorp.

The short term biggest challenge for the FCC is the migration to digital TV on February 17 which Obama has already been very vocal about. Reportedly, Obama has sought for broadband techonlogy improvements in his current economic plan.

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PHOTOS! Here are pictures and biography of Nancy Killefer of McKinsey & Company. Obama has chosen for CPO Nancy Killefer, a director at McKinsey & Company.

Nancy Killefer Pictures
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CPO, chief performance officer, is a position covering federal government budgeting and reform.

Change? Nope. Nancy Killefer was former assistant secretary of the treasury in the Clinton Administration.

Her bio reads as follows:

Nancy Killefer is a senior director in the Washington, D.C. office of McKinsey & Company, Inc. She is a leader of McKinsey’s Public Sector Practice, specializing in developing strategies and improving organizational effectiveness for a range of government clients.

Nancy joined McKinsey in 1979 and during her career focused on strategy, marketing, and organizational effectiveness and efficiency issues with an emphasis on consumer-based and retail industries.

From 1997 to 2000, Nancy served as Assistant Secretary for Management, CFO, and COO at the United States Department of the Treasury. In addition to overall management responsibilities for Treasury’s 14 bureaus and 160,000 people, she led a major modernization at the Internal Revenue Service, prepared Treasury’s systems for Y2K, and reshaped management processes, including installing an asset management program across the Treasury Department.

After returning to McKinsey in 2000, she joined the IRS Oversight Board, a public-private entity akin to a corporate board that oversees the IRS. She served there from 2000 to 2005 and was its Chairperson from 2002 to 2004.

Nancy received her M.B.A. from the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Vassar College. Prior to business school, Nancy worked as an associate at Charles River Associates, a microeconomics consulting firm.

Sloan is a superb school, not as good as Columbia though!

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UPDATE 2/3/09:

“Nancy Killefer has decided to withdraw her nomination, and we accepted her withdrawal,” Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said moments ago.

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PHOTOS! Here are the adorable photos of Rebecca Olson Gupta and Sanjay Gupta. Rebecca Olsen Gupta’s husband might be the next Surgeon General as LALATE broke to you earlier. Barack Obama has reportedly asked Dr Gupta to take the position.

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Rebecca and Sanjay told their love story to InTouch back before their wedding. The magazine wrote:

“As a neurosurgeon and CNN senior medical correspondent who spent a month with the U.S. Navy in Iraq, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 35, has been in plenty of trying situations. But his resolve was tested anew when he proposed to Rebecca Olson, 36. “I wrote her a poem and in the last line asked her to marry me,” says Gupta. “Watching her read it, I was very nervous—it was over a page long.” Adds Olson, a family law attorney, “He was down on one knee and asking me to marry him before I even got to the end!” “

Adorable couple.

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