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The U.S. State Department President Barack Obama's choice to be the next secretary of state has started meeting with diplomatic staff to prepare for his confirmation hearings. 
  
 Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says Sen. John Kerry was at its headquarters Wednesday. She says he received, quote, "a huge pile of briefing materials." He will report to the State Department regularly starting Friday. 
  
 Kerry is expected to easily win confirmation in the Senate, where he chairs the Foreign Relations Committee. Nuland says the department is working with the committee to pick a hearing date. 
  
 Obama nominated Kerry in December to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who intends to step down at the start of Obama's second term. ||||| Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "sounds terrific" and is expected to return to work next week, a State Department spokeswoman said Thursday. 
  
 "She's talking to staff, she is taking paper at home. She sounds terrific," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. "She's looking forward to coming back next week." 
  
 Nuland said the exact timing has not been decided yet. Clinton's doctors have also asked that she not do any international air travel for a while, she said. 
  
 Clinton was discharged from a New York hospital Wednesday after three days of treatment for a blood clot near her brain. She had been recovering at home since mid-December when she suffered a concussion in a fall. 
  
 Nuland said Clinton has received an outpouring of well wishes from her counterparts around the world. 
  
 "I think you could call the number of good-will messages a tsunami," she said. |||||
Hillary Clinton continues to recuperate at home but will be back at work in her Washington office at some point next week, reports Politico. Clinton is "sounding terrific, upbeat, and raring to go," says spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. The secretary of state was discharged from the hospital yesterday following treatment for a blood clot in her head. Meanwhile, expected successor John Kerry picked up a mountain of briefing papers ahead of his confirmation hearings and will begin reporting to the State Department regularly tomorrow, reports AP. (Up next: a Hillary movie?)