Joe Biden
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Biden calls 7 Fort Lewis soldiers 'fallen angels'...Afghanistan, some 5,000 of them in Afghanistan, spokesman Joseph Piek said. Biden met with members of the Walz, Gonzalez and Williamson families before the service. He also spoke with families of some other 5th Brigade soldiers killed in the... In this article: Joe Biden, Fort Lewis, and Stryker |
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White House News | 7 days ago
Readout of Vice President Biden's Call with Ambassador Hill
Readout of Vice President Biden's Call with Ambassador Hill Readout of Vice President Biden's Call with Ambassador Hill The Vice President and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill conferred by telephone today about the status of...
In this article: Iraq
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Seattle Times | November 10, 2009
Biden: 7 Wash. state soldiers were extraordinary
...day in a separate attack, Pfc. Brian R. Bates, 20, of Gretna, La. Biden talked repeatedly of the often unsung heroism of the nation's soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. To the fallen's family members he said: "As a nation, as hollow as it...
In this article: Fort Lewis, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, 2nd Infantry Division, Stryker, Iraq, and Barack Obama
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Centre Daily Times | 18 hours ago
YOURLETTERS
...expertise. His idea to partition Iraq into three zones was laughed at. His suggestion to create a smaller, more streamlined force in Afghanistan was dismissed. What is the point of having a foreign policy expert as vice president if his...
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Obama finalizes plan to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan
...deliberations have escalated into open warfare between McChrystal and his supporters and advocates of a more limited strategy led by Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that often played out in dueling leaks to news...
In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, U.S., Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Hillary Clinton, McClatchy Newspapers, White House, Mike Mullen, and NATO
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New York Post | November 16, 2009
Hill's got prez-ence, not Joe
...2:47 AM, November 17, 2009 He plays second fiddle to President Obama, but Vice President Joe Biden now badly trails Hillary Rodham Clinton among voters asked to rate each on their qualifications to be president. Biden, who has taken on some...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Iraq, and CNN
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Huffington Post | November 08, 2009
Steve Clemons: Give Joe Biden MVP Award This Week on Obama Foreign Policy Team
...through final issues in an "end game video conference" on Friday, the 6th of November. And White House staffers report that Joe Biden played quarterback for them during the recent turmoil over the on-then-off-then-on-again Iraq election law...
In this article: Barack Obama, Iraq, Steve Clemons, Council of Representatives, Masoud Barzani, White House, Ray Odierno, and Kurdistan
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washingtonpost.com | November 03, 2009
Iraqi logjam over vote law illustrates waning U.S. clout
Vice President Biden on Sunday called Massoud Barzani, president of the semiautonomous northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan, and asked him to nudge the Kurds in parliament to get behind the latest U.N. proposal to end the deadlock.
In this article: United States, Kirkuk, United Nations, Max Boot, Iraq, Massoud Barzani, Suicide, and Council on Foreign Relations
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Kansas City Star | November 10, 2009
Biden: 7 Fort Lewis soldiers were extraordinary
...more than it can repay. Biden spoke at the Washington base Tuesday as about 500 people gathered to honor the soldiers - the most honored in a single Fort Lewis service since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began. Biden says the...
In this article: Fort Lewis, Joseph Biden, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Washington, and Iraq
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 05, 2009
Standoff over Iraq's election law goes on, threatening January's vote
...here, particularly with the Kurds. Vice President Joe Biden called Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani and the speaker of Iraq's parliament this week to urge a compromise, Iraqi officials said. Kirkuk, about 150 miles north of Baghdad,...
In this article: Iraq, Kirkuk, Saddam Hussein, Baghdad, U.S., and Democracy
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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronounced: /ˈdʒoʊzɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942), is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States. He was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency. Biden was born in and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, and was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation and is 14th longest serving Senator in history.
Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
- Birth Date:
- November 20, 1942
- Birthplace:
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Religion:
- Roman Catholic
- Spouse:
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- Jill Jacobs (m. 1977)
- Neilia Hunter (deceased; m. 1966 – 1972)
- Residence:
- Number One Observatory Circle
- University Attended:
- Occupation:
- Lawyer
- Net Worth:
- $59,000 – $366,000
- Political party:
- Democratic Party
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