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Undated: 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. Biden also
represented
Delaware in the
U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. A member of the
Democratic Party, Biden is a
candidate for President in the
2020 election.
Biden was born in
Scranton, Pennsylvania, and lived there for ten years before moving with his
family to
Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969 and was elected to the
New Castle
County Council in 1970. He was first
elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, when he became the sixth-youngest
senator in American history. Biden was re-elected to the upper house of Congress
six times and was the
fourth most senior senator when he resigned to assume the vice presidency in
2009. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee. He opposed the
Gulf War
in 1991, but advocated U.S. and
NATO intervention
in the
Bosnian War in 1994 and 1995. He voted in favor of the
resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 but opposed the
surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He has also served as chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy,
crime prevention, and civil liberties. Biden led the efforts to pass the
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, and the
Violence Against Women Act. He also chaired the Judiciary Committee during
the contentious
U.S. Supreme Court nominations of
Robert
Bork and
Clarence Thomas. Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential
nomination in
1988 and in
2008, both times dropping out after lackluster showings.
In
2008, Biden was chosen as the running mate of Democratic presidential
nominee
Barack
Obama. After being elected vice president, Biden oversaw
infrastructure spending aimed at counteracting the
Great Recession and helped formulate U.S. policy toward
Iraq up until the
withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. His ability to negotiate with
congressional
Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation such as the
Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010,
which resolved a taxation deadlock; the
Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved that year's
debt ceiling crisis; and the
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending
fiscal cliff. Biden was reported to have advised President Obama against
approving the 2011 military mission that resulted in the
death of Osama bin Laden, though he has disputed this.[2]
Obama and Biden were
re-elected in 2012, defeating Republican nominee
Mitt
Romney and his running mate,
Paul Ryan.
In October 2015, after months of speculation,
Biden announced he would not seek the presidency in
the 2016 elections. In January 2017, Biden was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.[3]
After completing his second term as vice president, Biden joined the faculty of
the
University of Pennsylvania, where he was named the Benjamin Franklin
Professor of Presidential Practice.[4]
Biden announced his
2020 run for president on April 25, 2019.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
Some background:
Watch
The Most Outrageous Questions Senators Asked Anita Hill In 1991
September 21 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPnd911FcM
Undated:
Biden initially shared with the committee, but
not the public,
Anita Hill's
sexual harassment charges, on the grounds she was not yet willing to testify.[18]
After she did, Biden did not permit other witnesses to testify further on her
behalf, such as Angela Wright (who made a similar charge) and experts on
harassment.[110]
Biden said he was striving to preserve Thomas's
right to privacy and the decency of the hearings.[107][110]
The nomination was approved by a 52–48 vote in the full Senate, with Biden again
opposed.[18]
During and afterward, Biden was strongly criticized by liberal legal groups and
women's groups for having mishandled the hearings and having not done enough to
support Hill.[110]
Biden subsequently sought out women to serve on the Judiciary Committee and
emphasized women's issues in the committee's legislative agenda.[18]
In April 2019, Biden called Hill to express regret over his treatment of her;
after the conversation, Hill said that the apology was deeply unsatisfactory.[111]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
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September 20:
Anita Hill's Testimony and Other Key Moments From
the Clarence ...
The astonishing testimony aired Ms. Hill’s accounts of crude behavior and vulgar
language, the likes of which had never before been discussed in the buttoned-up
hearing rooms of the United States Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s
dismissive treatment of Ms. Hill by the all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary
Committee
empowered a wave of women to run for state and national office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/anita-hill-testimony-clarence-thomas.html
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April 2: Joe Biden, the touchy-feely
politician
Former Vice President Joe Biden is what used to be described as "touchy feely."
He is physical, with everyone. He is also known as one of the more empathetic
politicians around - the guy who calls when you have a problem and just listens.
But now two women say the touchy was a problem and the feely inappropriate.
This needs some professional context. Physical contact with supporters has been
a necessary part of political campaigning for decades. The candidate who tries
to run for office and refuses all physical contact with voters would soon be
dismissed as cold and aloof.
In Biden's defence, several women have come forward to say that he has hugged
and touched them too and it never felt inappropriate, only affectionate.
So clearly there's a line politicians have to walk. Physical, but not in the
wrong way.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47778527
April 5: Earlier this week,
Joe Biden released a video statement to address allegations that he had
kissed a Democratic candidate for office on the head and smelled her hair during
the course of the 2014 campaign, actions that she said made her feel "gross."
Biden said 351 words in that statement. None of them were "I'm sorry" or "I
apologize."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/05/politics/joe-biden-lucy-flores-2020/index.html
April 19: Joe Biden Is Running for President
The former vice president has finally decided he’s in, and he’s announcing in
less than a week.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/joe-biden-running-president/587560/
April 25: Joe Biden: The Architect of
America’s Disastrous War on Drugs
Joe Biden is kicking off another presidential run. Will his role in the drug war
finally catch up with him?
https://fee.org/articles/joe-biden-the-architect-of-america-s-disastrous-war-on-drugs/
April 26: Biden motivated by Virginia racial
violence, Trump response
https://www.apnews.com/0da41bc7243c434b8d6522cc344c61bc
April 27: Joe Biden’s killer advantage
heading into 2020 election
Joe Biden joined the 2020 race for president last week by declaring that the
next election
will be “a battle for the soul of this nation.”
https://nypost.com/2019/04/27/joe-bidens-killer-advantage-heading-into-2020-election/
April 27: What Joe Biden Hasn’t
Owned up to About Anita Hill
Whether
Joe Biden’s treatment of
Anita Hill, nearly three decades ago, will continue to cloud his
Presidential campaign likely depends on how contrite he is.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-joe-biden-hasnt-owned-up-to-about-anita-hill
April 29: A Brief Guide to the Joe Biden–Anita
Hill Controversy
What did [Joe] Biden do during the hearings?
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, it fell on Biden to
preside over the [Clarence Thomas] hearings. Critics of his performance tend to
hone in on three things.
First, he did little to stop members of the committee from attacking Hill. The
Republicans
were the most relentless. Arlen Specter asked her why she didn’t report the
behavior to HR and said that discussing “large breasts” at work was common.
Howell Heflin asked if she was a “scorned woman” and if she had “militant
attitude relative to the area of civil rights” or a “martyr complex.” Charles
Grassley accused her of lifting the pubic hair story from The Exorcist.
Second, Biden failed to call additional witnesses who could have corroborated
Hill’s testimony. One of those women, Angela Wright Shannon,
told Roll Call in 2016 that it was probably a good thing that she
didn’t testify. “I don’t think I could have maintained the grace and dignity of
Anita Hill,” she said. Hill, in 2014, said Biden declining to put the other
witnesses in front of the committee was “a disservice to me” and “a disservice
more importantly, to the public,” as allowing those women to testify would have
“helped the public to understand sexual harassment. He failed to do that.”
Lastly, Biden’s critics say that his own questioning of Hill was unfair, blaming
him for “setting an accusing, skeptical tone and losing control,”
the Washington Post reports. Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law
professor and Hill’s attorney at the time,
told Politico he still blames Biden for mishandling the hearing:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/guide-joe-biden-anita-hill-controversy.html
April 29: Joe Biden on handling of Anita
Hill during Clarence Thomas hearings: 'I take responsibility'
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate
Joe Biden said he takes “responsibility” for
Anita Hill’s treatment when
she testified before the Senate Judiciary committee during Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing.
“I believed her from the very beginning, but I was chairman. She did not get a
fair hearing. She did not get treated well. That's my responsibility,” Biden
told “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts during an interview on
Monday which will fully air on Tuesday. “As the committee chairman, I take
responsibility that she did not get treated well. I take responsibility for
that.”
Biden went further than he has in previous interviews on the way Hill was
treated when she testified that Thomas sexually harassed her, including on
Friday
during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” when he said he didn’t believe he
personally treated Hill badly.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-handling-anita-hill-clarence-thomas-hearings/story?id=62665298
April 29: Joe Biden Still Doesn’t Understand
What He Did to Anita Hill
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/joe-biden-anita-hill-apology-problem-misunderstand-concern.html
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