Good Tuesday Morning. The 111th Congress opens today with formal swearing-in ceremonies. Al Franken will not be sworn in; will Roland Burris?

**Yesterday had that first-day-at-school feel for more than just the Obama girls. Just over two months after election day, and now two weeks before his inauguration, Barack Obama seemed more presidential than ever on his first full day in Washington. He dominated the headlines yesterday with his meetings on the Hill and high-profile announcements, testing the limits of his 'one president at a time' mantra.

Today, as Congress opens for the 111th time, Obama will meet with his economic team at his transition offices, as the details of a stimulus plan continue to seep out.

**Obama may face one of his first big intra-party tests yet over his pick for CIA director, former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta. Incoming Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein reacted to the pick of the fellow Californian with uncharacteristic brusqueness, questioning the choice of someone without operational experience at the agency. "My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time," Feinstein said in a statement, adding that she "was not informed."

**Team Obama didn't say much publicly, but one official tells the New York Daily News that Panetta's experience and strong opposition to the Bush administration's torture policy make him "an easy choice."

The New York Times reports that Obama's picks for other key Justice Department posts, also announced yesterday, "signal a sharp break from the legal policies of the last eight years."

**Roland Burris likely will not be one of the senators sworn in to office today. The Illinois secretary of state refused to sign the documentation Burris needs to enter the Senate, and the secretary of the Senate rejected the paperwork handed in yesterday because both the governor and secretary of state must sign, the New York Times reports. What it boils down to for Senate Democrats is the fear that Burris would be defeated for re-election in 2010, and a Republican would win a seat the Dems feel should and could be easy to hold on to.

**Al Franken is in a similar pickle. Senate leaders Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) disagreed yesterday on whether or not Franken had actually won his Minnesota Senate race against incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. The state Canvassing Board certified the results of the recount, which concluded with Franken in the lead. But Coleman is not giving up, and a winner can not be certified until all litigation regarding the election has concluded. "This process isn't at the end," said Coleman counsel Tony Trimble. "It is now just at the beginning."

**One of those storylines in Congress today surrounds Vice President-elect Joe Biden's swearing in for a seventh term as Delaware's senator. Look for a great photo up of the incoming and outgoing VPs today on C-SPAN2. He'll resign his seat just before inauguration, giving way to longtime friend Ted Kauffman.

Meanwhile, Biden's Senate office announced yesterday that he, in his capacity as outgoing chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, will visit Southwest Asia later this week. "The fact-finding delegation will make it clear to foreign leaders that they are not there to speak on behalf of the U.S. government, or convey policy positions for the incoming administration," a Biden office release stated.

The exact itinerary is being withheld for security reasons, but a number of overseas outlets have reported that the CoDel will visit Pakistan. Biden has focused on the vital interests at stake in the region, and during the campaign he reffered several times to the fact that a plane carrying him and several other senators was forced to make an emergency landing in the hills of nearby Afghanistan.

--Mike Memoli and Kyle Trygstad