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Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, are continuing a family tradition of spending Thanksgiving with family on Nantucket. The family started the tradition of spending the holiday on the island more than three decades ago, but this will be the former Delaware senator's first Thanksgiving as vice president there.
While running for president in 2007 and 2008, John McCain missed more votes than anyone in the Senate.But since falling short in his quest for the White House, McCain has missed only nine votes, or 2.5 percent of the 353 Senate roll-call votes through Nov. 21. During the 2007 and 2008 sessions of the 110th Congress, McCain missed 420 votes, or 63.9 percent, of 657 opportunities."I'm back at work ...
WASHINGTON - Advance car for Vice President Biden's motorcade involved in crash in NYC, Biden unhurt. Senate confirms controversial Obama nominee for Chicago appeals court - The Senate on Thursday confirmed U.S. District Judge David Hamilton for the Chicago-based federal appeals court, approving a nominee targeted by conservatives as a liberal activist.
DES MOINES — Vice President Joe Biden took on critics of theObama administration in a forceful speech Saturday to Democraticactivists in Des Moines.
Le Templar: Vice President Joe Biden is in Arizona this morning, trying to build support for the White House economic stimulus efforts and attending a fundraiser for some Democrats in the state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. Biden’s visit coincides with a growing national consensus that Reps. Harry Mitchell and Gabrielle Giffords could be especially at risk to a national ...
At this year’s Wharton Finance Conference, Edward DeSeve claimed, “I have no authority. I have no power.” But his audience of MBA students and Wharton undergraduates might beg to differ. DeSeve, as special advisor to Obama for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, coordinates the distribution of $787 billion stimulus funds and reports directly to Vice President Joe Biden. And Friday ...
HARTFORD (AP) — Campaign officials for Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd say Vice President Joe Biden will visit Hartford on Dec. 11 for a fundraiser for the senator, who is trailing in the polls in his 2010 re-election bid.
Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit to Las Vegas Sunday. If you’re surprised that you hadn’t heard about it, it wasn’t for a publicized event.
The list of expected guests for President Barack Obama's first White House state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as provided by the White House.
Washington - US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will finish the job in Afghanistan, as he contemplates a new strategy for the country that he is expected to announce shortly. Obama has refused to be pinned down on when he intends to outline...
Construction signals new, central place in Pentagon's plans
WALTHAM Three Waltham middle schoolers have been charged with attempted poisoning after they allegedly placed cleaning solvent in a teacher’s water bottle, Waltham police said. On Nov. 12, at 9:45 a.m., a teacher at the Waltham McDevitt Middle School reported that her water had been contaminated, police said. Upon investigation, police said they learned that the students, two of whom ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving toward the final stage of a historic debate, the Senate's top Democrat prepared to unveil a new health care bill that aims to meet President Barack Obama's goal of expanding coverage without adding to the federal deficit. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada met Wednesday morning at the Capitol with Vice President Joe Biden to go over the game plan on health care ...
Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning to win votes for a Senate healthcare bill. Read more...
Vice-President Joe Biden returns to Iowa Saturday night as the featured speaker for the annual Jefferson-JackasonDay Dinner in Des Moines.
Vice President Joe Biden will be in Albuquerque on Monday to raise campaign cash Biden is scheduled to appear at a $1,000-a-plate 1:15 p.m. luncheon for for first-term Democratic Reps. Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague.at Albuquerque's Hotel Andaluz, but he won't be doing public events while in New Mexico. Biden Motorcade Escort Involved in Wreck The third member of the state's House delegation ...
