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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."
Associated Press - November 21, 2009 10:14 PM ET DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden says the Senate has handed President Barack Obama a big victory on health care that will be a...
WASHINGTON - Democrats and their staff members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have spent more on international travel in 2009 than they have in any other year, reflecting a greater focus on up-close tours and investigations in foreign countries by its new chairman, John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, according to a Globe analysis of expense reports filed in Congress.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
