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Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan serves notice on the Karzai government that "you now have to step up to the ball."
Senator Orrin Hatch recently criticized my suggestion that Senate Republicans are preventing President Barack Obama from appointing federal judges and urged me "and other apologists [to get our] facts straight, tell the whole story, and realize that our nation's leaders are responsible for their choices and priorities."
View full size AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks at the opening of his jobs summit, officially known as the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum, Thursday, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, D.C.
President Obama Today Kicks Off his Economic Tour of the Country
The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Thursday for last week's security breach at President Obama's first state dinner, but he said that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
WASHINGTON — The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Wednesday for last week's security breach at President Barack Obama's first state dinner, but insisted that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public.
President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan looks at first like a defeat for his vice president, who pushed hard for holding down the number of U.S. troops in the country. But the plan also gives Vice President Biden a lasting victory: a strategy that lays out far more modest goals for the embattled nation.
Less than a year into his first term, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell stepped into the national political spotlight Wednesday by accepting the chairmanship of the Democratic Governors Association.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said today the Obama administration’s new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public.
President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan looks at first like a defeat for his vice president, who pushed hard for holding down the number of U.S. troops in the country. But the plan also gives Vice President Biden a lasting victory: a strategy that lays out far more mo...
(Updates with additional background on the hearing and more comments from Senator Kaufman.)
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sen. Ted Kaufman (D., Del.) will hold a hearing next week to examine the role of financial fraud in the current economic crisis, asking representatives from the Attorney General's office, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Bureau of Investigation to discuss the issue.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan serves notice on the Karzai government that "you now have to step up to the ball."
Vice President Joe Biden says he assumed they were invited guests. He's talking about Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who posed for pictures with Biden and others at last week's state dinner for the prime minister of India. It turned out they were there without an invitation.
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public. WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Obama administration’s new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from ...
