Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he represents Delaware as US Senator from 1973 to 2009.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, and lived there for ten years before moving with his family to Delaware. He became a lawyer in 1969, and was elected to the board of New Castle County in 1970. He was first elected to the Senate in 1972, and became the sixth youngest senator in American history. Biden was re-elected to the upper house of Congress six times, and was the fourth senior senator at his resignation to become Vice Presidency in 2009. He is a longtime member and former chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991, but advocated US and NATO intervention in the Bosnian War in 1994 and 1995. He voted in favor of a resolution endorsing the Iraq War in 2002, but opposed the wave of US troops in 2007. He also served as chair of the Committee Senate Justice, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and leading legislative efforts for the creation of Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Law, and the Anti Violence Against Women Act. He presided over the Judicial Committee during Supreme Court nominations Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Biden did not succeed in finding the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 1988 and in 2008, both dropped out after an uninspired show. In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama chose Biden to be his partner in the race, which they won.
As Vice President of the Obama Administration, Biden oversaw infrastructure spending aimed at warding off the Great Recession, and US policy towards Iraq until the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. His ability to negotiate with Congressional congressmen helped bring legislation such as Assistance Tax, Endorsement of Unemployment Insurance and the Employment Creation Act of 2010 that broke the tax impasse, the 2011 Budget Control Act that resolved the debt crisis that year, and the 2012 US Taxpayer Tax Act that discussed the upcoming fiscal cliffs. In 2011, he opposed forward with a military mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Obama and Biden re-elected in 2012. In October 2015, after months of speculation, Biden chose not to run for President of the United States in 2016. In December 2016, he refused to rule out a potential bid for the President by 2020 , but it was announced on January 13, 2017, that he would not run, only to resign again just four days later, again refusing to rule out a potential offer. On January 12, 2017, Obama presented him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom with a distinction - the only time Obama presented the Medal of Freedom with the additional honor of the distinction. After leaving the office, Biden was appointed Professor of Presidency Practitioner Benjamin Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Biden was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Hospital. Mary in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (nÃÆ' Â © e Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Sr. She is the first of four brothers in a Catholic Family, with a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, James and Frank, to follow. His mother is of Irish descent, with various roots associated with County Louth or County Londonderry. Her paternal grandparents, Mary Elizabeth (Robinette) and Joseph H. Biden, an oil businessman from Baltimore, Maryland, are of British, French and Irish descent. His great-grandfather, William Biden, was born in Sussex, England, and immigrated to the United States. His great-great grandfather, Edward Francis Blewitt, was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
Biden's father had been very wealthy before in his life, but experienced some business reversals when his son was born. For several years, the family had to live with Biden's grandparents, the Finnegans. When the Scranton area suffered economic downturns during the 1950s, Biden's father could not find enough work. In 1953, the Biden family moved to an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, where they lived for several years before moving to a house in Wilmington, Delaware. Joe Biden Sr. then more successful as a used car salesman, and family circumstances are the middle class.
Biden attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, where he was a prominent half/half recipient on a high school soccer team; he helped lead a team that constantly lost in an unbeaten season in his senior year. He plays on the baseball team as well. During these years, he participated in anti-segregation lounging at a Wilmington theater. Academically, he is an average student, considered a natural leader among the students, and was elected as the head of the class during his junior and senior years. He graduated in 1961.
He earned a BA in 1965 from the University of Delaware, with a double major in history and political science, graduating with a class rating of 506 from 688. His classmates were impressed by his cramming ability, and he played half foot with the new Blue Hens soccer team. In 1964, during spring break in the Bahamas, he met and began dating Neilia Hunter, who came from a prosperous background in Skaneateles, New York, and attended Syracuse University. He tells him that he's aiming to become a Senator at the age of 30 and then the President. He dropped his first year plan to play for the university football team as a defense, allowing him to spend more time visiting the country with him.
He then entered Syracuse University College of Law, receiving half a scholarship based on financial needs with some additional help based on academics. With his own description, he found that law school was "the largest hole in the world" and attracted many people overnight to get through it. During his first year there, he was accused of plagiarizing 5 of the 15 pages of legal review articles. Biden said it was unintentional, as he did not know the exact rules of the quote, and he was allowed to retake the course after receiving the "F" score, which then dropped from his record (this event would later attract attention when further plagiarism allegations appeared in 1987 ). He received the Juris Doctor in 1968, passing 76 out of 85 in his class. Biden was treated at the Delaware bar in 1969.
Biden received deferred student designs during this period, at the height of the Vietnam War, and in 1968, he was reclassified by the Selective Service System because it was not available for services due to having asthma as a teenager. He never took part in anti-war demonstrations, then said that at the time he was busy with marriage and law school, and "wearing a sports coat... not a tie-dipped".
Negative impression of drinking alcohol in Biden and Finnegan family and in that environment caused Joe Biden to be a person who does not drink alcohol. Biden suffered from stuttering through most of his childhood and into his twenties, and coped with spending hours reading poetry in front of the mirror.
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Political career and early family life
On August 27, 1966, while Biden was still a law student, he married Neilia Hunter. They overcame his parents' initial reluctance to marry a Roman Catholic, and the ceremony was held at a Catholic church in Skaneateles. They have three children, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III in 1969, Robert Hunter in 1970, and Naomi Christina in 1971.
During 1968, Biden signed up for six months at a Wilmington law firm headed by William Prickett, a prominent Republican, and, as he later said, "consider myself a Republican." He disliked the conservative racial politics of Delaware Democratic Governor Charles L. Terry and supported a more liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968. Local Republican tried to recruit him, but he refused because of his displeasure over Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon, and listed as Independent instead.
In 1969, Biden returned to law practice in Wilmington, first as a public defender and then at a company headed by Sid Balick, a locally active Democrat. Balick named him to the Democratic Forum, a group that tried to reform and revitalize the country party, and Biden transferred its registration to the Democrats. He also started his own law firm, Biden and Walsh. Company law, however, does not interest him and criminal law does not pay well. He supplemented his income by managing the property.
Then in 1969, Biden ran as Democrat for the New Castle County Council on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburbs. He won by a voice, a vote of two thousand votes in the Republican district usually and in a bad year for Democrats in the state. Even before taking his seat, he's been talking about running for the US Senate in a few years. He served on the District Council from 1970 to 1972 while continuing his private legal practice. Among the issues he spoke on the board was his opposition to a major highway project that might disturb the Wilmington neighborhood, including those associated with Interstate 95.
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Elections and tragedies; recovery and new family
The entry of Biden into the election of the US Senate in 1972 in Delaware represents a unique situation. The old political figures of Delaware and Republican presidential candidate J. Caleb Boggs are considering retirement, which is likely to leave US Representative Pete du Pont and Wilmington Mayor Harry G. Haskell Jr. in a major divisive battle. To avoid it, US President Richard M. Nixon helped convince Boggs to run again with full party support. No other Democrats want to fight Boggs. The Biden campaign has almost no money and no chance to win. It is managed by his sister Valerie Biden Owens (who will continue to manage his future campaigns) and is managed by other family members, and relies on the paper of the position of the distributed newspaper and meets with the voters directly; the small size of the country and the lack of a large media market make this approach feasible. He receives help from the AFL-CIO and Democratic polls, Patrick Caddell. His campaign issue focuses on withdrawal from Vietnam, the environment, civil rights, mass transit, fairer taxation, health care, public discontent with politics-as-usual, and "change". During the summer, he trailed nearly 30 percentage points, but his energy level, his attractive young family, and his ability to connect with voting emotions gave Biden a soaring advantage over the ready-to-retire Boggs. He won the November 7, 1972 election in an angry state by a margin of 3,162 votes.
On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and his one-year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car accident while shopping for Christmas in Hockessin, Delaware. The Neilia Biden station cart was hit by a tractor-trailer as he pulled out of the intersection; truck drivers are cleared of any error. The children of Biden, Beau and Hunter survived the accident and were taken to the hospital in good condition, Beau with broken legs and other wounds, and Hunter with small skull fractures and other head injuries. The doctor immediately said the two will make a full recovery. Biden is considered to have resigned to take care of them, but was persuaded not to by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. After the accident, Biden commented that the truck driver had been drinking alcohol before the collision, but this accusation was rejected by the driver's family and never proven by the police.
Biden was inducted into office on January 5, 1973 by Francis R. Valeo, Secretary of the Senate at a small chapel in the Delaware Division at Wilmington Medical Center. Beau is pushed with his legs still in traction; Hunter, who has been released, is also there, as are other great family members. Witnesses and television cameras were also present and the event received national attention.
At the age of 30 (the minimum age required to hold an office), Biden became the sixth youngest senator in US history, and one of only 18 senators who served before reaching the age of 31. But the accident made him filled with anger. and religious doubts: "I love [walking around the slums] at night when I think there is a better chance of finding a fight... I do not know I am capable of anger... I feel God has played a terrible trick on me. "Staying at home every day for his younger sons, Biden commenced daily commuting practice with Amtrak trains for 1½ hours each journey from his home on the outskirts of Wilmington to Washington, DC, which he continued to do throughout the Senate career. After the accident, he had trouble focusing on the job, and apparently only through the movement of being a senator. In his memoirs, Biden noted that the staff took a bet on how long he would last. A single father for five years, he leaves standing orders that he will be disturbed in the Senate at any time if his son calls. In recalling his wife and daughter, Biden did not work on December 18, the anniversary of the accident.
Biden's eldest son, Beau, becomes Attorney General of Delaware and Advocate of Army Judge serving in Iraq; his younger son, Hunter, became Washington's lawyer and lobbyist. On May 30, 2015, Beau died at the age of 46 after a two-year battle with brain cancer. At the time of his death, Beau has been widely seen as a pioneer to become a Democratic candidate for Delaware Governor in 2016.
In 1975, Biden met Jill Tracy Jacobs, who grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, and will become a teacher in Delaware. They met on a blind date arranged by Biden's brother, though Biden had already seen a picture of himself in an ad for a local park in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden will admire him by renewing his interest in politics and life. On June 17, 1977, Biden and Jacobs were married by a Catholic priest at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York. Jill Biden has a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware; two masters, one from West Chester University, and one Villanova University; and a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware. They have one daughter together, Ashley Blazer (born 1981), who became a social worker and staff at the Delaware Services Department for Their Children, Youth and Families. Biden and his wife are Roman Catholics and regularly attend Mass at St. Joseph at Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware.
Initial Senate Activities
During his first years in the Senate, Biden focused on the law on consumer protection and environmental issues and called for greater accountability on the part of the government. In mid-1974, new student Senator Biden was named one of the Future Faces for the Future by Time magazine, in a profile that mentions what has happened to his family and characterizes Biden. as "confident" and "ambitious compulsive".
Biden became a minority member of the US Senate Committee's rank on Justice in 1981. In 1984, he was the Democratic floor manager for the success of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act; libertarian civilians praised him for modifying some provisions of the Act, and that was his most important legislative achievement at the time. He first considered running for president later that year, after he was notified to give a speech to party goers who simultaneously scolded and encouraged Democrats.
Regarding foreign policy, during its first decade in the Senate, Biden focuses on weapons control issues. In response to the rejection of the US Congress to ratify the SALT II Agreement signed in 1979 by Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter, he took the initiative to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, educate him on American interests and interests, and secure some changes to overcome objections from Committee on Foreign Relations. When the Reagan administration wanted to interpret the Salt Treaty I of 1972 loosely to allow the Strategic Defense Initiative to proceed, Biden argued to strictly adhere to the terms of the treaty. He clashed again with the Reagan administration in 1986 for economic sanctions against South Africa; he gained great attention when he denounced Secretary of State George P. Shultz at the Senate hearing for the support of the country's government, which continued to practice the apartheid system.
presidential campaign 1988
Biden ran for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, formally announcing his candidacy at Wilmington train station on June 9, 1987. He tried to become the youngest president since John F. Kennedy. When the campaign begins, he is considered potentially powerful because of his moderate image, his ability to speak on a stump, his appeal to Baby Boomers, his high position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the upcoming Robert Bork Supreme Court. nomination hearings, and the appeal of the raising. He raised $ 1.7 million in the first quarter of 1987, more than any other candidate.
In August 1987, the Biden campaign, whose message was confusing because of staff competition, began to lag behind Michael Dukakis and Dick Gephardt, although he still raised more funds than all the candidates except Dukakis, and saw progress in the Iowa poll.. In September 1987, the campaign got into trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech made earlier that year by Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labor Party. Kinnock's speech includes lines:
"Why did I become the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to get into university? [Then pointed to his wife in the audience] Why was Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to get into university? Is it because all of our predecessors are thick?"
While Biden's speech included lines:
"I started thinking when I came here, why was Joe Biden the first one in his family who ever went to university? [Then pointed to his wife in the audience] Why my wife who sat outside was among the audience was the first in her family ever is it because my father and mother are not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a bachelor degree that I'm smarter than the others? "
Biden has actually quoted Kinnock as a source for formulation on previous occasions. But he did not refer to the original source on 23 August of the Democratic debate at the reported Iowa State Fair, or in an August 26 interview to the National Education Association. Moreover, while political speeches are often ideas and languages ​​that fit each other, Biden's use comes under more scrutiny as he fabricates aspects of his own family background to match Kinnock. Biden was soon found to have had the beginning of the year it picked up parts of a 1967 speech by Robert F. Kennedy (whose aide was blamed), and a brief phrase from 1961 John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech; and in the previous two years have done the same with the 1976 section of Hubert H. Humphrey.
A few days later, Biden's plagiarism incident at law school became public spotlight. The video also released shows that when previously asked by New Hampshire residents about his grades in law school, he stated that he had graduated at the top of his class, that he had attended law school on a full scholarship, and that he had received three titles in college, each is not correct or exaggerate the actual record.
The Kinnock and school revelations were magnified by a limited amount of other news about the nominating race at the time, when most societies had not paid attention to any of the campaigns; Thus, Biden falls into what writer Paul Taylor describes as the trend of the year, a "trial through media trials". He does not have a strong demographic or political support group to help him survive the crisis. He withdrew from the candidacy race on September 23, 1987, saying his candidacy had been defeated by the "overgrowth" of his past mistakes.
After Biden backed out of the race, it was revealed that the Dukakis campaign secretly made a video highlighting Biden-Kinnock's comparison and distributing it to news outlets. Then in 1987, the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Delaware Supreme Court cleared Biden of allegations of legal school plagiarism about his stance as a lawyer, saying Biden "did not break any rules".
In February 1988, after suffering several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden was taken by long-range ambulance to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and underwent a rescue operation to repair a leaky intracranial berry aneurysm; the situation was serious enough that a priest had arranged the last ceremony at the hospital. When he recovered, he suffered from pulmonary embolism, which is a major complication. Another operation to repair a second aneurysm, which caused no symptoms but also a risk of explosion, was done in May 1988. Biden's hospitalization and recovery continued from his job in the US Senate for seven months. Biden has no recurrences or effects of aneurysms since then. In retrospect, the Biden family came to believe that the early end to his presidential campaign had become a blessing in disguise, because if he was still campaigning in the midst of preliminary beginning of 1988, he might not have stopped to seek medical help. and his condition may no longer be liveable.
Justice Committee
Biden is a longtime member of the US Senate Committee in Justice. He led it from 1987 to 1995 and he served as a minority member of the rank above him from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997.
While chairman, Biden led two of the most debated US Supreme Court confirmation hearings, they were to Robert Bork in 1987 and Clarence Thomas in 1991. In Bork's hearing, he expressed his opposition to Bork immediately after the nomination, reversing his agreement in an interview with Bork's hypothetical nominations he had made the previous year and angered conservatives who thought he could not do an impartial audience. At closing, he won praise for doing the process fairly and with good humor and courage, as his 1988 presidential campaign collapsed in the middle of the audience. Rejecting some of the less intellectually intelligent arguments committed by Bork's other opponents, Biden framed the discussion around the belief that the US Constitution grants the rights to freedom and privacy beyond the limits explicitly mentioned in the text, and that Bork's powerful originism is ideologically contrary to the view that. The Bork nomination was rejected on the committee by a 9-5 vote, and then rejected in the Senate filling with a 58-42 margin.
In Thomas's audience, Biden's questions on constitutional matters were often long and complicated, sometimes that's how Thomas forgot the questions he asked. Viewers from high-profile audiences are often distracted by the Biden style. Thomas later wrote that although there had been personal guarantees from the senator, Biden's questions were similar to a pea ball. The nomination comes out of the committee without recommendation, with Biden opposed. Partly because of his own bad experiences in 1987 with his presidential campaign, Biden was reluctant to let personal matters into the audience. Biden was initially shared with the committee, but not publicly, the allegations of sexual harassment Anita Hill, on the grounds he has not been willing to give testimony. After he did so, Biden did not allow other witnesses to testify further on his behalf, such as Angela Wright (who made similar allegations) and expert on harassment. Biden said he was trying to keep Thomas's privacy and courtesy from court. The nomination was approved by 52-48 votes in the full Senate, with Biden again opposed. During and after, Biden was heavily criticized by liberal legal groups and women's groups for mismanaging the trial and not doing enough to support Hill. Biden then seeks out women to serve on the Justice Committee and emphasizes women's issues on the committee's legislative agenda.
Biden was involved in drafting many federal criminal laws. He pioneered the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden Crime Law, which includes the Federal Assault Weapon Tire, which expired in 2004 after a ten-year period and was not renewed. It also includes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which contains a wide range of actions to combat domestic violence. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in the United States v. Morrison that the part of VAWA that allows federal civilian treatment for victims of gender-motivated violence exceeds the authority of Congress and is therefore unconstitutional. Congress required VAWA back in 2000 and 2005. Biden said, "I consider Violence Against Women Acting as the most important law I made during my 35-year tenure in the Senate." In 2004 and 2005, Biden enlisted major American technology companies in diagnosing Texas National Domestic Hardness Domain problems, based in Texas, and to donate equipment and expertise to it in a successful effort to improve its services.
Biden criticized the actions of Independent Adviser Kenneth Starr during the Whitewater controversy of the 1990s and the Lewinsky scandal investigation, saying "this will be a cold day in hell" before another Independent Adviser is given equal power. Biden chose to release both charges during President Clinton's impeachment.
As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Biden wrote a law that created the US "Czar Drug", which oversees and coordinates national drug control policies. In April 2003, he introduced the controversial Ecstasy Act Vulnerability Act, also known as the RAVE Act. He continues to work to stop the spread of "date rape drugs" such as flunitrazepam, and drugs such as Ecstasy and Ketamine. In 2004, he worked to issue bills that prohibit steroids like androstenedione, a drug used by many baseball players.
Biden's "Children 2000" Act establishes public/private partnerships to provide computer centers, teachers, Internet access, and technical training for young people, especially for low-income and low-income teenagers.
Committee on Foreign Relations
Biden is also a long time member of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In 1997, he became a minority ranking member and chaired the committee in January 2001 and from June 2001 to 2003. When the Democrats took over the Senate after the 2006 election, Biden returned to the top of the committee in 2007. Biden was generally a liberal internationalist in policy overseas. He collaborated effectively with key Republican figures such as Richard Lugar and Jesse Helms and occasionally opposed elements of his own party. Biden is also one of the heads of the NATO Observer Group in the Senate. A partial list that includes this time shows a Biden meeting with about 150 leaders from nearly 60 countries and international organizations. Biden often held hearings as chair of the committee, and held many subcommittee hearings during the three times he led the Subcommittee on European Affairs.
Biden became interested in the Yugoslav War after hearing about Serbian offenses during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991. After the Bosnian War broke out, Biden was one of the first to call for a "lift and attack" policy to lift arms embargoes, training Bosnian Muslims and supporting them with NATO airstrikes, and investigating war crimes. The administration of George H. W. Bush and the Clinton administration were reluctant to enforce the policy, fearing the Balkans would become entangled. In April 1993, Biden spent a week in the Balkans and held a thrilling three-hour meeting with Serbian leader Slobodan Milo? Evi ?. Biden told me that he told Milo? Evi?, "I think you're a fucking war criminal and you should try as one." Biden wrote an amendment in 1992 to force the Bush administration to arm the Bosnians, but delayed in 1994 with a somewhat softer attitude favored by the Clinton administration, before signing in the following year for a stronger action sponsored by Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman. The engagement led to successful NATO peacekeeping efforts. Biden has been called his role in influencing Balkan policies in the mid-1990s "the proudest moment in public life" associated with foreign policy. In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia and Montenegro, and sponsored with his friend John McCain, Kosovo's McCain-Biden Resolution, which called on President Clinton to use all necessary forces, including ground forces, to confront Milosevic over Serbian action in Kosovo. In 1998, the Quarterly Congress was named Biden one of the "Twelve Who Make the Difference" to play a leading role in several foreign policy issues, including the expansion of NATO and the successful adoption of the bill to streamline the agency's affairs abroad and punish religious persecution abroad.
Biden had voted against authorization for the Gulf War in 1991, which sided with 45 of the 55 Democratic senators; he said that the United States bore almost any burden in the anti-Iraqi coalition. Biden is a strong supporter of the 2001 war in Afghanistan, saying "Whatever is needed, we must do it." Regarding Iraq, Biden stated in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was a threat to national security, and that there was no choice but to eliminate the threat. In October 2002, Biden voted in favor of Authorization for the Use of Military Forces Against Iraq, justifying the Iraq War. While he soon became a war critic and viewed the vote as a "mistake", he did not insist on asking for a US withdrawal. He supported the appropriation to pay for the occupation, but argued repeatedly that war should be internationalized, that more troops were needed, and that the Bush administration should be "parallel to the American people" about the cost and length of the conflict.
By the end of 2006, Biden's attitude had shifted, and he opposed the 2007 surge in troops, saying General David Petraeus was "dead, wrongly flat" in his surge beliefs to succeed. Biden is not a leading proponent to divide Iraq into a loose federation of three ethnic countries. In November 2006, Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, released a comprehensive strategy to end sectarian violence in Iraq. Rather than continue the current approach or withdrawal, the plan calls for a "third way": modernize Iraq and give Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis "breathing space" in their own territories. In September 2007, non-binding resolutions passed the Senate in favor of such a scheme. However, the idea was unknown, lacked a political constituency, and failed to gain attraction. Iraqi political leadership is united in denouncing the resolution as a de facto state partition, and the US embassy in Baghdad issued a distancing statement.
In March 2004, Biden secured the immediate release of democracy activist and Libyan political prisoner Fathi Eljahmi, after meeting with leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush for his speech to the Israeli Knesset in which he suggested that some Democrats act in the same manner as some Western leaders did when they pacified Hitler on the way to World War II. Biden states: "This is nonsense This is malarkey It's outrageous It's embarrassing for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset... and make such a ridiculous statement." Biden later apologized for using a curse. Biden further states, "Since when does this government think that if you sit down, you must eliminate the word 'no' from your vocabulary?"
Delaware important
Biden is a familiar figure for his Delaware constituency, commuting every day from there, and generally trying to meet the needs of the country. Biden is a strong supporter of Amtrak funding and increased rail security; he's having a barbecue and an annual Christmas dinner for the Amtrak crew, and they sometimes roll out the last train that night for a few minutes so he can catch it. He earned the nickname "Amtrak Joe" as a result (and in 2011, Amtrak's Wilmington Station was named after Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railway Station, in honor of more than 7,000 trips he made from there). He is a supporter for Delaware military installations, including Dover Air Force Base and New Castle Air National Guard Base.
In 1975, Biden broke away from liberal orthodoxy when he took legislative action to restrict the transport of desegregation. By so doing, he says that disguise is "the idea of ​​bankruptcy [in violation of the main rules of common sense," and that his opposition will make it easier for other liberals to follow him. Three years later, the federal government's mandatory trans-district bushing plan caused a lot of turmoil, and in an attempt to validate a compromise solution, Biden found himself alienating black and white voters for a while.
Beginning in 1991, Biden served as a professor at the Widener University Law School, the only law school in Delaware, teaching a seminar on constitutional law. The seminar is one of the most popular Widener, often with a waiting list for registration. Biden usually teaches along with other professors, taking at least half a minute of course and sometimes flying back from abroad to create one of the classes.
Biden was the sponsor of bankruptcy law during the 2000s, sought by MBNA, one of Delaware's largest companies, and other credit card issuers. Biden allowed the amendment of the bill to increase the homes waiver for homeowners declaring bankruptcy and fighting for amendments to ban anti-abortion criminals from using bankruptcy to free fines; The whole bill was vetoed by Bill Clinton in 2000 but was eventually ratified as Prevention of Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act in 2005, with Biden supporting it.
The Sussex County Downstate region is the country's top chicken-producing region, and Biden entered into trade agreements with Russia when it stopped importing US chickens.
In 2007, Biden requested and obtained a $ 67 million project for his constituency through the congressional congress.
Biden sits on the advisory board of the Close Up Foundation, which brings high school students to Washington to interact with legislators on Capitol Hill.
Characteristics as a senator
After the initial election in 1972, Biden was re-elected to six additional terms, in the 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008 elections, typically getting around 60% of the vote. He did not face strong opposition; Pete du Pont, then governor, chose not to run in 1984. Biden spent 28 years as a junior senator because of the two-year seniority of his Republican counterpart William V. Roth Jr. After Roth was defeated for re-election by Tom Carper in 2000, Biden became Delaware's senior senator. He later became the longest senator in Delaware history. In May 1999, Biden set a mark for the youngest senator to give 10,000 votes.
With a net worth of between $ 59,000 and $ 366,000, and hardly any outside income or investment income, Biden is consistently classed as one of the least wealthy members of the Senate. Biden states that he is listed as the second poorest member in Congress, a distinction he is not proud of, but is associated with being elected early in his career. Biden realized early in his senator's career how vulnerable poorer public officials were to offer financial contributions in exchange for policy support, and he encouraged the campaign's financial reform measures during his first term.
Over the years as a senator, Biden garnered a reputation for his passion, with questions and remarks during the Senate hearings, which were primarily known for being long-winded. He has been a powerful speaker and debater and frequent and effective guest at Sunday morning's talk show. In public appearances, he is known to deviate from ready statements at will. According to political analyst Mark Halperin, he has shown "an incessant tendency to say silly, offensive, off-putting things"; The New York Times wrote that "Biden's weak filter made it capable of catapulting anything". Biden is also known for courtesy; journalist James Traub has written that "Biden's arrogance and his concern for his own prize seem to be quite large even by the standards of the US Senate being clarified."
Political writer Howard Fineman says that, "Biden is not an academic, he is not a theoretical thinker, he is a major department major.He comes from a long line of people working in Scranton - car dealers, car dealers, people who know how to do sales. "He has a very good Irish gift." Political columnist David S. Broder has seen Biden grow since he came to Washington and since his failed 1988 presidential bid: "He's responding to real people - consistent across the board. And his ability to understand himself and deal with other politicians has been much better. "Traub concluded that" Biden is a kind of basically happy person who can be just as generous towards others as himself. "
presidential election 2008
Biden ran for Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and on national tickets as a candidate for vice presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Campaign of the outermost presidency
Biden thought about running for president again on several occasions after failing in 1988. He chose not to run for president in 1992 partly because he voted against the resolution that legitimized the Gulf War. He considered joining the Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential election, but in August 2003 decided otherwise, saying he did not have enough time and every effort would be too far. Around 2004, Biden was also widely discussed as a possible Minister for Foreign Affairs within the Democratic government.
Biden declared his candidacy as president on January 31, 2007, after discussing the run for months in advance, and first made an official announcement to Tim Russert on Meet the Press on January 7, stating that he would " being the best Biden I can. "In January 2006, Delaware newspaper columnist Harry F. Themal wrote that Biden" occupies a reasonable center of the Democratic Party. " Themal concluded that this was the position that Biden wanted, and that in a campaign "he plans to emphasize the danger to the average security of Americans, not only from terrorist threats, but from the lack of health assistance, crime and energy dependence in parts of the world which is unstable. "
During his campaign, Biden focused on the war in Iraq and his support for the implementation of Biden-Gelb's plan to achieve political success. He cited his record in the Senate as head of a large congressional committee and his experience of foreign policy. Despite the opposite speculation, Biden rejected the idea of ​​accepting the position of Secretary of State, focusing solely on the presidency. In a 2007 campaign event, Biden said, "I know a lot of my opponents out there say I'm going to be a great Foreign Minister Seriously, all of them. Joe's right, Joe's right, Joe's right. "" The other candidate's comments that "Joe's right" in the Democratic Party debate is transformed into a campaign theme and Biden ad. In mid-2007, Biden emphasized his foreign policy expertise compared to Obama, saying the latter, "I think he can be ready, but right now I do not believe him." The presidency is not something suitable for training. "Biden also said that Obama copying some of his foreign policy ideas. Biden was recorded for one-liners on a campaign trail, saying from Rudy Giuliani, who at that time was Republican candidate in a debate on October 30, 2007, in Philadelphia, "There are only three things he mentioned in a sentence: nouns, and verbs and 9/11. "Overall, the Biden debate show is seen as an effective mix of humor, and the comments are sharp and surprising.
Biden made a statement during a controversial campaign. On the day of the announcement in January 2007, he talked about fellow Democratic and Senator Barack Obama candidates: "I mean, you got the first major, intelligent African-American first person and a handsome man, I mean, a storybook, man. "This comment ruined his campaign soon after it started and significantly undermined the fundraising ability; was then ranked second on the list of Top 10 Gaffes magazine for Time in 2007. Biden had previously been criticized in July 2006 for a statement he made about his support among the American Indians: "I already have In Delaware, the biggest growth in the population is an Indian-American who moves from India.You can not go to 7-Eleven or Dunkin 'Donuts unless you have a little Indian accent.I am not kidding. "Biden later said that the statement it is not meant to be offensive. The Indian-American activist who received Biden's message said he was "100 percent behind [Biden] because he had not made a mistake."
Overall, Biden had trouble raising funds, struggling to attract people to his meetings, and failing to gain appeal against Obama's high profile candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton; he never rose above a single digit in a Democratic candidate national poll. In the initial contest on January 3, 2008, Biden placed fifth in the Iowa caucus, collecting slightly less than one percent of the country's delegates. Biden withdrew from the race that night, saying "There's nothing sad about tonight.... I feel no regret."
Despite his lack of success, Biden's stature in the political world increased as a result of his campaign. In particular, it changed the relationship between Biden and Obama. Although both have worked together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they are not yet close, with Biden hating Obama's speed as a political star, and Obama has seen Biden as nagging and demeaning. Now, after getting to know each other during 2007, Obama values ​​Biden's campaign style and appeals to working-class voters, and Biden believes that Obama is the "real deal".
Democratic candidate for vice president
Because shortly after Biden withdrew from the presidential election, Obama personally told Biden that he was interested in finding an important place for him in the possible Obama administration. Biden rejected Obama's first request to pick him up for the vice-presidential slot, fearing the vice president would represent a loss of status and votes from the Senate position, but later changed his mind. In an interview on 22nd June 2008 at NBC's Meet the Press, Biden confirmed that, although he was not actively looking for a place on the ticket, he would receive a vice presidential nomination if offered. In early August, Obama and Biden met in secret to discuss possible relationships between the vice presidents, and both succeeded in private. On August 22, 2008, Barack Obama announced that Biden would be his partner. The New York Times reported that the strategy behind the choice reflects a desire to fill the ticket with someone who has foreign policy and national security experience - and does not help tickets win the swing state or emphasize Obama's "change" message. Other observers have pointed to Biden's appeal to middle-class and blue-collar voters, and his willingness to aggressively challenge Republican candidate John McCain in a manner that sometimes seems uncomfortable to Obama. In accepting Obama's offer, Biden ruled out the possibility of running for president again in 2016 (although Biden's comments in subsequent years seem to back away from that stance, with Biden not wanting to reduce his political power by appearing uninterested in progress). Biden was formally nominated for a vice president on August 27 with a vote on the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
After his election as a vice presidential candidate, Biden was criticized by his own Roman Catholic Diocese, Bishop Michael Saltarelli for not opposing abortion. The bishopric affirms that even if the vice-president is elected, Biden will not be allowed to speak in Catholic schools. Biden was immediately barred from receiving Holy Communion by the bishop of his native Scranton, Pennsylvania, for his support for abortion rights; However, Biden continues to receive Communion at the local Delaware parish. Scranton became a flashpoint in the competition for Catholic swing state voters between Democratic campaigns and liberal Catholic groups, who stressed that other social issues should be considered more or more of abortion, and many conservative Catholic bishops and conservatives, who maintain abortion are paramount.. Biden says he believes that life begins at conception but he will not impose his personal religious views on others. Bishop Saltarelli earlier stated of an attitude similar to Biden: "No one today will accept this statement from any public servant: 'I personally oppose human slavery and racism but will not impose my personal convictions in the legislative arena.' Likewise, none of us should accept this statement from any public servant: 'I personally oppose abortion but will not impose my personal convictions in the legislative arena.' "
Biden's vice-presidential campaign gained little media visibility, as more press attention focused on Republican partner couple, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. For one week in September 2008, for example, the Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Biden only included within five percent of news coverage of the race, far less than for the other three candidates on the ticket. Biden remains focused on campaigning in economically challenging areas of swinging states and trying to win the blue-collar Democrats, especially those who have supported Hillary Clinton. Biden attacked McCain aloud, despite having a long personal friendship; he would say, "That man I used to know, he's gone, it really makes me sad." When the 2007-2010 financial crisis culminated with the September 2008 liquidity crisis and the proposed bailout of the US financial system became a major factor in the campaign, Biden voted in favor of the $ 700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which passed the Senate 74-25.
On October 2, 2008, Biden participated in a candidate vice presidential campaign debate with Palin. The post-debate poll found that while Palin exceeded a lot of voter expectations, Biden won the debate as a whole. On October 5, Biden suspended a campaign event for several days after the death of his mother-in-law. During the final days of the campaign, Biden focuses on less populous, older, less fortunate areas in battlefield countries, especially in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where polls show he is popular and where Obama is not campaign or perform well. in Democratic preliminary elections. He also campaigned in some normal Republican countries, as well as in areas with large Catholic populations.
Under instructions from Obama's campaign, Biden continued to make short speeches and tried to avoid off-hand comments, such as one about Obama being tested by foreign powers soon after taking office, which has attracted negative attention. Personally, Obama is frustrated by Biden's statement, saying, "How many times will Biden say something stupid?" Obama's campaign staff refers to Biden blunders as "Joe bomb" and makes Biden uninformed about the discussion strategy, which in turn makes Biden upset. The relationship between the two campaigns became tense for a month, until Biden apologized for a call to Obama and the two built a stronger partnership. Openly, Obama's strategist David Axelrod says that unexpected comments have been defeated by Biden's high popularity ratings. Nationally, Biden has a 60% favorability rating in the Pew Research Center poll, compared to Palin's 44%.
On November 4, 2008, Obama was elected President and Vice President of the United States Biden. The Obama-Biden ticket won 365 Electoral College votes to 173 McCain-Palin, and has a 53-46 percent percent in national elections.
Biden continued to run for the seat of the Senate as well as the Vice President, as permitted by the law of Delaware. On November 4, Biden was also re-elected as senator, defeating Republican Christine O'Donnell. After winning both races, Biden made the point of resignation from the Senate so he could be sworn in for his seventh term on January 6, 2009. He became the youngest senator ever to start a seventh term, and said, "All my life, the greatest honor that has been given to me is to serve the people of Delaware as their United States senator. " Biden gave his last Senate vote on January 15, supporting the release of the second $ 350 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Biden resigned from the Senate later that day; in an emotional farewell speech on the Senate floor, where he spent most of his adult life, Biden said, "Every good thing I've seen happens here, every bold step taken in the 36 years I've been here, comes not from the application of pressure by interest groups, but through the maturation of personal relationships. "
Vice Presidency (2009-2017)
Postpartum transition
When President Barack Obama's transition begins, Biden tells him in a daily meeting with Obama and that McCain is still his friend. The U.S. Secret Service password name given to Biden is "Celtic", which refers to the root of his words in Ireland.
Biden opted for veteran Democratic lawyer and assistant Ron Klain to become chief of staff, and Timothy Washington's bureau chief Jay Carney to become director of his communications. Biden is intended to eliminate some of the explicit roles assumed by his predecessor vice president Dick Cheney, who has established himself as a center of autonomous power. If not, Biden says he will not model his vice president in the one that was before him, but instead will try to give advice and advice on any critical decisions that will be Obama. Biden said he has been closely involved in all cabinet appointments made during the transitional period. Biden was also named to head the new White House Task Force on Working Families, an initiative aimed at improving middle-class economic welfare. As his last act as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Biden traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan during the second week of January 2009, meeting with leaders of these countries.
First term (2009-2013)
Biden became the 47th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2009, when he was unveiled with President Barack Obama. Biden was the first Vice President of the United States of Delaware and the first Roman Catholic to obtain the post. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens gave the oath of office to Biden.
In the early months of the Obama administration, Biden took over the role of an important advisor behind the scenes. One of his roles is to adjudicate a dispute between Obama's "rival teams". The president compared Biden's efforts with basketball players "who do a lot of things that do not appear on the statistics sheet." Biden played a key role in gaining Senate support for some key parts of Obama's law, and was a major factor in convincing Senator Arlen Specter to move from Republican to Democratic Party. Biden lost internal debate to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about her opposition to sending 21,000 new troops to the war in Afghanistan. His skeptical voices were still considered valuable in government, however, and then in 2009, Biden's views reached more prominently within the White House when Obama reconsidered his strategy in Afghanistan.
Biden visits Iraq once every two months, including a trip to Baghdad in August and September 2009 to listen to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and reaffirm US attitudes about Iraq's future; at this point it has become a point of government administration in conveying a message to Iraqi leaders about the expected progress in the country. More generally, keeping an eye on Iraqi policy is Biden's responsibility: the president is said to have put it as "Joe, you do Iraq". Biden said Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this government." Biden's January 2010 visit to Iraq amid the upheaval of banned candidates from the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections resulted in 59 of the few hundred candidates being reinstated by the Iraqi government two days later. In 2012, Biden has made eight trips there, but his oversight of US policy in Iraq recedes with the release of US troops in 2011.
Biden is also responsible for the oversight role for infrastructure spending from Obama's stimulus package that is intended to help cope with the ongoing recession, and stressed that only viable projects should get funding. He spoke with hundreds of governors, mayors, and other local officials in this role. During this period, Biden was satisfied that there was no prime example of waste or corruption, and when he completed the role in February 2011, he said that the number of incidents of fraud with monetary stimulus was less than one percent.
It takes some time for the cautious Obama and Boud to ramble to find ways to deal with each other. In late April 2009, Biden's out-of-response response to a question during the outbreak of the swine flu epidemic, that he would advise family members not to travel by plane or subway, led to the rapid abrogation of the White House. The words rekindled Biden's reputation of irritation, and caused a series of late-night TV gags about him as a loose-talking clown. In the face of growing unemployment through July 2009, Biden acknowledged that the government had "misread how bad the economy was" but maintained the belief that the stimulus package would create more jobs after spending steps were taken. In the same month, Clinton's Secretary of State quickly denied Biden's statement of undermining Russia as a force, but despite the blame, Biden still retained Obama's trust and became increasingly influential in government. On March 23, 2010, the microphone took Biden to the president that the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a "big deal" during the live national news broadcast. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs replied via Twitter "And yes Mr. Vice President, you are right..." Obama Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said that Biden's loose talk "is part of what makes the vice president so charming.. We will not change it a bit too. "Former compatriot Lindsey Graham said," If there is no mistake, there will be no Joe. He is someone you can not love. " Biden gained a long-running alter ego person, "The President of Vice", on the satire news website The Onion, who parodied his post. Despite their different personalities, Obama and Biden formed friendships, partly based around Obama's daughter Sasha and Biden's grandson, Maisy, who attended Sidwell Friends School together.
Biden's most important role in administration is to question assumptions, play the role of the opponent. Obama said that "The best thing about Joe is when we gather everyone, he really forces people to think and keep their position, to see things from every angle, and that is very precious to me." Other senior Obama advisers said Biden "is always ready to be a skunk on family picnics to ensure we are as intellectually honest as possible." On June 11, 2010, Biden represented the United States at the opening ceremony of the World Cup, attended the England game v. US bound 1-1, and visited Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa. Throughout, Joe and Jill Biden maintain a relaxed atmosphere at their official residence in Washington, often entertaining some of their grandchildren, and regularly returning to their home in Delaware.
Biden campaigned heavily for the Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections, maintaining an optimistic attitude in the face of general predictions of large-scale losses for the party. Following the Republican gains in the election and departure of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Biden's past relations with Republicans in Congress are becoming more important. He led successful administrative efforts to gain Senate approval for the New START agreement. In December 2010, Biden's advocacy in the White House for the middle ground, followed by direct negotiations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was instrumental in generating a government compromise tax package that revolves around temporary extension of Bush's tax cuts. Biden then took the lead in an attempt to sell the deal to the Congress-reluctant Democrat caucus, which was ratified as Tax Assistance, Endorsement of Unemployment Insurance and the Work Creation Act of 2010.
In March 2011, Obama Biden detailed to lead negotiations between both houses of Congress and the White House in completing the federal spending rate for the rest of the year and avoiding government shutdown. In May 2011, a "Biden panel" with six congressmen tried to reach a bipartisan agreement on raising the US debt ceiling as part of the overall deficit reduction plan. The US debt crisis ceiling developed over the next few months, but it was again Biden's relationship with McConnell that proved to be a key factor in breaking the deadlock and finally brought a bipartisan agreement to resolve it, in the Budget Control Act of 2011, signed on August 2, 2011, the same that an unprecedented US standard has soared. Biden had spent the most time haggling with Congress about any debt question in government, and a Republican staffman said, "Biden is the only person with a real negotiating authority, and [McConnell] knows that his words are good. a key to a deal. "
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