Vice President-Elect Joe Biden To Make Final Overseas Trip As Senator

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Vice President-elect Joseph Biden will travel to Southwest Asia this week as the outgoing chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee together with other lawmakers. He makes the trip less than two weeks before he is sworn into office.

Biden will make a week-long, fact-finding trip together with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who will replace the Vice President-elect as head of the foreign relations panel in the new 111th Congress after the inauguration on Jan. 20. The Congressional delegation will also include Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Jack Reed (D-RI), a statement from the office of Kerry said.

The itinerary of the trip will be released during the visit due to security reasons, but pundits are speculating that it is likely that Biden will visit Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are part of Southwest Asia.