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FACEBOOK GOES BIG IN D.C. – Biden: 2012 key is 'strength and leadership' – Obama to auto plant -- John Edwards may fight feds -- Lance Armstrong beefs up -- Rove: GOP needs 'war college'

By MIKE ALLEN | 05/26/11 8:25 AM EDT

BULLETIN – FACEBOOK RAMPS UP IN WASHINGTON “to demonstrate to policymakers that we are industry leaders in privacy, data security and safety”:

--JOEL KAPLAN TO HEAD D.C. OFFICE – A Facebook exec emails: “Joel Kaplan will join the policy team on June 13 as Vice President, U.S. Public Policy. He will oversee and coordinate Facebook’s public policy strategy and interactions with federal and state policymakers. He will head our Washington office, and lead our efforts there to educate and build support among key audiences for our plans, products, and policies. … He joins Facebook from Energy Future Holdings, where Executive Vice President …

“fter advising the Bush-Cheney <2000> campaign on policy, Joel served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush White House Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget … He served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia … Earlier, Joel served as an Artillery Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.”

--Joel will report to Marne Levine, also a V.P., who heads global public policy. She was chief of staff of President Obama’s National Economic Council under Larry Summers.

http://www.politico.com/playbook/0511/playbook1430.html