But the Washington he must operate in is very much unchanged by the results of the 2012 elections.
And when he is here in Washington he has briefings in person in the Oval Office with his national security team regularly.
He surrounded himself with seasoned if fractious advisers, and during his first weekend in Washington he asked Seward to look over his Inaugural Address.
Despite his prominent role in Washington he remains something of an unknown on the national stage, though he hardly is the first vice presidential pick to face that situation.
In his remarks Wednesday morning, Chu said that when he arrived in Washington he was surprised to find out that the energy department had not issued a single loan guarantee for two years.
Several months after Sullivan returned home from Washington he attended a meeting with 50 other surgeons in town to discuss lapses in trauma care, which Sullivan and HCA blamed on specialty hospital doctors.
America's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, recently cancelled a planned visit to Cairo, and Mr Mubarak was likely to face a cold reception during the annual trip to Washington he is expected to make in April.
The world of the Lincoln-era Washington he created was incredibly accurate and realistic, from the White House with its dim lighting, to the Senate with its waist-coated and bearded men, from the wallpaper to the rugs, and everything in between, no detail was spared in the cause of authenticity.
He's new, he's outside Washington, he has the value also of being the governor of Virginia, which lo and behold is actually a battleground state this year.
McCain is celebrating the American worker today, but it would have been nice if over the last 26 years that he's been in Washington that he actually stood up for them once in a while.
And when he took the oath of office as governor of Washington, he did so in the state capitol building not one mile from the home where his grandfather worked as a servant all those years ago.
On Dec. 14, while he was riding Amtrak's Acela train from New York to Washington, he opened an e-mail that detailed problems in the auction-rate markets, which were seizing up because of the blossoming credit crisis.
And after he gave a speech last week to CEOs at a hotel in Washington, he lingered for nearly an hour to engage in private discussions with the corporate leaders, moving table to table, according to someone who was at the gathering.
This year, he already is drawing enough notice in states such as California, Oregon and Washington that he could spell potential trouble for Vice President Al Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
He happened to be in Washington, and he was kind enough to join us here in our Washington studios.
He spoke from Washington, where he was invited to brief the State Department and the Pentagon last week.
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The idea was most recently discussed in meetings on Friday morning in Washington, he said.
Washington said he thinks most people were disappointed the three students didn't get more severe punishment.
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After more than thirty years in Washington, he is used to political power struggles and institutional infighting.
After Gates left Washington, he showed up on TV, the star of his own feel-good ad campaign.
As Senator Kohl prepares to leave Washington, he is speaking the truth and doing us all a favor.
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The talk show host told The Washington Post he has been inundated with angry e-mails and even death threats.
When Nixon returned from Washington, he failed to persuade even the board of an apartment building to approve his residency.
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On the return trip to Washington, he brought back 12 of the victims' family members, who have been meeting with senators.
In a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington, he said all options, both diplomatic and military, were being considered.
One frustrated African finance minister said in Washington that he accepted that while rich countries could afford to they would subsidise their farmers.
The next evening in Washington, he'll defend his WBA and IBF light-welterweight world titles against Lamont Peterson in a marquee fight on HBO.
At the Atlantic Council in Washington, he describes a job that forces one to "mix the world of power and the world of morality".
In his office in Washington, he has a photograph of Ronald Reagan on the wall and a view of Pennsylvania Avenue out the window.
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