Vice President Joe Biden gets a warm hug from Gayle Manchin. U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) participated in a reenacted swearing-in with his wife Gayle Conelly Manchin, U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) (left in photo) and Biden. The ceremonial event took place in the Old Senate Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. on January 3, 2013. The official swearing-in ceremony happened earlier in the Senate chambers on the opening day of the 113th Congress. (Photo by Jeff Malet).