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Politico reports:

Incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday it was personally important to President-elect Joe Biden that a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders join him at church on Inauguration Day morning. Psaki said Biden hopes it will signal “the beginning of a path forward” to national healing and political unity at the outset of his term.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are all expected to attend a church service with Biden at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington Wednesday morning ahead of his swearing-in at noon.

Incoming first lady Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and incoming second gentleman Douglas Emhoff will also attend.

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Meanwhile elected officials are arriving at St Matthew the Apostle for a bipartisan prayer service to start the day. @SpeakerPelosi, a Catholic like Biden, among first to arrive pic.twitter.com/ZgFExqbRfa

— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) January 20, 2021