Biden swears in Schatz as new senator for Hawaii

By Charles Babington

Published December 27, 2012 9:05pm ET

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Biden swears in Schatz as new senator for Hawaii — Vice President Joe Biden, right, re-enacts the swearing in of Sen. Brian Emanuel Schatz, D-Hawaii., left, as wife Linda Schatz, holds the bible and watches at center, during a ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie named Schatz, his lieutenant governor, to fill the Senate seat left vacant following the death of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. Earlier, Biden officially administered the Senate oath to Schatz on the Senate floor. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | Susan Walsh

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian Schatz symbolized a generational change in Hawaii’s Senate delegation, taking the hand of his new colleague, 88-year-old Sen. Daniel Akaka, moments before being sworn in Thursday as the successor to the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath of office in a chamber peopled by a dozen Democratic senators and a handful of Republicans.

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