Joseph Biden

Democrat  •  Delaware  •  7th Term  •  Sworn In 1973
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01/17/09
Obama Should Spray the Taliban's Poppies, Rep. Kirk Asserts

Graham, just back from a Congressional trip to Iraq and Afghanistan with Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, says he agrees with Kirk on the need for an ...

Source: RealClearPolitics, IL
01/17/09
US Senate Fills Biden Seat

Washington, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) Democrat Edward Kaufman was sworn in as Delaware senator, substituting Joseph Biden who, as of the 20th will become the ...

Source: Prensa Latina, Cuba
01/17/09
Monroe students sworn in as 'president, vice president' in mock inauguration

...was "inauguration day" at the school and Lopez, and his "running mate," Nnamdi Igwemezie, 12, who played vice president-elect Joseph Biden, were sworn in to office. Both wore suits and pressed hands with the crowd like actual politicians. The boys were

01/16/09
Obama’s in town

Obama is set to leave from 30th Street Station tomorrow and head to Delaware where he is scheduled to pick up Vice-President-elect Joseph Biden. ...

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
01/16/09
Supporters hope for glimpse of Obama in Edgewood

Obama's train will leave from Philadelphia then pick up Vice President-elect Joseph Biden in Wilmington, Del., before continuing to Baltimore and finally ...

Source: Baltimore Examiner, MD
01/16/09
News Summary for January 15, 2009

US VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN: I have been a United States senator considerably longer than I was alive before I was a United States senator. ...

Source: NewsHour
01/16/09
Burris Sworn in as Senator

On Friday Democrat Ted Kaufman will be sworn in as a senator to replace Vice President elect Joseph Biden of Delaware.

Source: ToTheCenter.com, NY
01/16/09
A 'Surge' Faces Trouble In the Senate

Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, as Foreign Relations Committee chairman, will lead the rest of the Democrats not only to oppose a surge but to block it. ...

Source: Washington Post, United States
01/16/09
Obama cranks up hard sell of stimulus plan

Along the way he will pick up his vice president-to-be Joseph Biden in his home state of Delware and hold an event in Baltimore. ...

Source: AFP
01/16/09
Guy Cosentino: We need an election, not a coronation

Obama and Joseph Biden, as well as Clinton. When the Constitution was amended nearly a century ago, the intent was to go to direct elections, ...

Source: Auburn Citizen, NY
01/16/09
Obama arrives in Bedford Heights

The trip, which includes stops in Delaware to pick up Vice President-elect Joseph Biden and in Baltimore, retraces the trip Abraham Lincoln made before his ...

Source: The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH
01/16/09
Obama to take on Social Security, Medicare

...Thursday his administration will make "hard decisions" Social Security and Medicare reform. U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) (R) speaks, as President-elect Barack Obama (C) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (L) listen, during a meeting

01/16/09
Local inauguration festivities start early Tuesday

...Call to order by U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, with an invocation by Dr. Rick Warren. Swearing in of Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, followed by music from Aretha Franklin and a composition from John Williams, performed by Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gabr

01/16/09
The best places to watch the ‘whistle stop’ tour in Cecil

... protected against the weather should you decide you want even the quickest of glimpses of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden on their way to Washington.

Source: Cecil Whig, MD
01/16/09
Funeral far away hit close to home

There to eulogize their "friend and colleague," were Clinton, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, along with many other sitting ...

Source: The Salinas Californian, CA
01/16/09
Biden Likely To Seek Big Voice In Foreign Policy, But May Have To ...

US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden traveled to Afghanistan recently to meet with that country's president, Hamid Karzai. Biden, the long-serving chairman ...

Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
01/16/09
Obama to follow Lincoln inaugural tradition

Under the procedure adopted in 1937, Sen. Joseph Biden will be administered the oath as Vice President by the senior Supreme Court justice, ...

Source: Sonoma Valley Sun, CA
01/16/09
LEADING LA DY

... who presented such an extraordinary spectacle in Grant Park, not least when joined by the family of Vice President Joseph Biden,” the editors of Vogue ...

Source: Buffalo News,  United States
01/16/09
US Senate votes another $350 billion to bail out the banks

... former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, his incoming White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden and Obama himself ...

Source: Bay Area Indymedia, CA
01/16/09
Nickelodeon to cover Obama inauguration

...next week. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks during a meeting regarding U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. Joseph Biden's (D-DE) recent trip to Southwest Asia at the transition office in Washington on January 14, 2009. Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham

01/16/09
Monroe students sworn in as 'president, vice president' in mock ...

It was "inauguration day" at the school and Lopez, and his "running mate," Nnamdi Igwemezie, 12, who played vice president-elect Joseph Biden, were sworn in ...

Source: Scarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ
01/16/09
Obama Administration: Already a shade of gray

The average age, according to an analysis of the dates of births of 36 key players, including Brack Obama himself and Vice President Joseph Biden, ...

Source: Examiner.com
01/15/09
Biden, Clinton Say Farewell to Senate Colleagues

Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, elected to the Senate in 1972 when he was 29 years old, will be sworn in as the next vice president Tuesday, while New York Sen. ...

Source: FOXNews
01/15/09
Clinton Expected to Receive Endorsement From Senate Panel

...vote on Thursday will pave the way for a full Senate vote after Obama is sworn in on Jan. 20. Clinton and outgoing Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the vice president-elect, are expected to give their farewell speeches on the Senate floor on Thursday. Ear

Source: FOX News
01/15/09
Mitchell students set for high-tech inaugural

... some of the events, including the swearing-in ceremony for Barack Obama as president and Joseph Biden as vice president, in the school’s lunchroom. ...

Source: Gadsden Times (subscription), AL
01/15/09
Today on the Hill

Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Hillary Clinton (DN.Y.) will deliver farewell addresses from the Senate floor, as they prepare to assume their positions in the ...

Source: Washington Post Blogs, DC
01/15/09
Biden, Clinton Say Farewell to Senate Colleagues

...on the Senate floor as they prepare to move on to new roles next week in the  Obama administration. Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, elected to the Senate in 1972 when he was 29 years old, will be sworn in as the next vice president Tuesday, while New Yo

Source: FOX News
01/15/09
Senate Panel Approves Clinton as Secretary of State

...The committee vote paves the way for a full Senate vote after Obama is sworn in on Tuesday. Clinton and outgoing Sen. Joseph Biden, the vice president-elect, are expected to give their farewell speeches on the Senate floor on Thursday. Democrats and R

Source: FOX News
01/15/09
Swift confirmation expected for Clinton

...vote on Thursday will pave the way for a full Senate vote after Obama is sworn in on Jan. 20. Clinton and outgoing Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the vice president-elect, are expected to give their farewell speeches on the Senate floor on Thursday. Ear

Source: eTaiwan News
01/15/09
Burris Is Sworn In; 4th Black Senator Since Reconstruction

Joseph Biden, the vice president-elect, gave his farewell speech in the Senate today. The Delaware Democrat was first elected in 1972 and was re-elected six ...

Source: NPR

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