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By Jordain Carney - 01/20/21 07:22 PM EST
 
Senators confirmed Avril Haines to be President Biden s director of national intelligence (DNI) on Wednesday, giving him his first Senate-confirmed Cabinet pick. 
Senators voted 84-10 to confirm Haines, who appears to be the only Cabinet official Biden will get confirmed on the first day of his administration. 
It s a historically small number of Cabinet picks to get through the Senate on the first day of a new administration and comes after Republicans were furious in 2017 when Democrats allowed only two Cabinet picks to be confirmed on former President Trump
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By comparison, former President Obama got six Cabinet picks confirmed on his first day, former President George W. Bush got seven on his first day and former President Clinton got three. Former President Carter got eight, while former President Nixon got 11.   ....

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