A 22-minute joint session of Congress today certified the re-election of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, who led the session as the Senate’s presiding officer, formally announced that he and Obama each received 332 electoral votes,...
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden celebrate on election night, Nov. 7, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.
Congress Makes Obama-Biden Re-elections Official
For Some Democrats and Activists, No Deal Better Than Bad Deal
As President Barack Obama shows cautious optimism that a fiscal deal can be reached in the waning hours of 2012, some Democratic activists and union leaders are already pushing back against the contours of the tax plan being negotiated by Vice...
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FEMA workers load food for affected areas onto waiting trucks at Republic Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, 2012 in Farmingdale, New York.
Biden: FEMA ‘Doing One Helluva Job’
Vice President Joe Biden says, as best as he can tell, FEMA is doing “one helluva of a job.” That could be a risky comment, so early in the federal response to Hurricane Sandy’s flooding and devastation in New Jersey...
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The vice president's plane, Air Force Two.
The Pros and Cons: Air Force One v. Air Force Two
There’s a crucial difference between the president’s and the vice president’s plane: The stewards don’t serve alcohol on Air Force Two. Perhaps even more jarring for frequent fliers aboard the president’s plane, on Air Force Two, they require Blackberries...
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan participate in the vice presidential debate October 11, 2012, moderated by Martha Raddatz
Biden-Ryan Debate a Place-Holder
“There are plenty of fine people who could lead this country, but what you need are people who, when they say they’re going to do something, they go do it,” Rep. Paul Ryan said in debate tonight. “My record stands...
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Representative Paul Ryan during the October 11, 2012 vice presidential debate.
Biden-Ryan: American Intervention
“It’s a different country,” Vice President Joe Biden says of Syria, when asked why the U.S. is not involved there the way it was in the overthrow of the regime in Libya. “All this loose talk of Governor Romney, and...
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Vice President Joe Biden during the October 11, 2012 vice presidential debate
Laughing Biden to Cool Ryan: `Now You’re Jack Kennedy’
“The middle class will pay less, and people making more than $1 million will pay more,” Vice President Joe Biden says of the Obama administration’s plan for taxes. “We want to extend permanently the middle-class tax cut,” Biden says, accusing...
Read more »Ryan’s Cool, Biden’s Rolling Eyes
Barbs are flying and eyes are rolling. But someone is keeping his cool. Vice President Joe Biden, who debated Republican Sarah Palin in 2008, says he’s hearing her words again in his debate tonight with Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican Mitt...
Read more »Biden Raises Romney’s 47% — Ryan Says Biden Knows Regretted Words
Vice President did what President Barack Obama didn’t do: He has raised the 47-percent issue in debate. Republican Mitt Romney was videotaped telling fundraisers that 47 percent of Americans pay no taxes and are victims of government dependency and unreachable...
Read more »Biden-Ryan: Iranian Nuclear Bomb
“Are you going to go to war, is that what you’re going to do?” — Vice President Joe Biden. “We’re going to prevent war.” — Rep. Paul Ryan. With the Republican nominee for vice president calling for tougher sanctions against...
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