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With each passing day, the Obama administration is looking more and more like the Clinton administration.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Friday that his new chief of staff will be Bruce Reed, who spent eight years working for President Clinton, first as his assistant for domestic policy planning, then as deputy domestic policy adviser and finally as chief domestic policy adviser.

Mr. Reed, who has led the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, will be succeeding Ron Klain, who is leaving the vice president’s staff to run Case Holdings, the parent company of a former AOL chief Steve Case’s investment company.

Mr. Reed most recently worked for the Obama administration as the executive director of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, often called the Simpson-Bowles commission for its chairmen, Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, who served as Mr. Clinton’s chief of staff. “I’ve known and admired Bruce for over 20 years,” Mr. Biden said.

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