Joe Biden
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Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States, having taken office on January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Vice President under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. Biden has focused on various key issues during his presidency, including economic recovery, healthcare, and climate change. His administration has emphasized 'Bidenomics,' which aims to address inflation and promote economic growth.
Jan 17, 2001
I am extremely interested in knowing your views and the views of the President-elect in time with regard to U.S. policy toward the Balkans.
Jan 17, 2001
We are, notwithstanding what some people do not like to admit, both a European and an Asian power.
Jan 17, 2001
I am interested in hearing your views on how we can achieve still further reductions.
Jan 17, 2001
I also believe that the most recent estimates conducted by the intelligence community underscore the risks that a deployment decision now could leave us less and not more secure.
Jan 17, 2001
I am concerned that we not undertake a precipitous rush to deploy a national missile defense.
Jan 17, 2001
I commit, and I suspect all my colleagues on the Democratic side do as well, to work in good faith with you and the President to try to build a foreign policy that enjoys a broad consensus.
Jan 17, 2001
We should recognize that while we must lead the world, we do not control it.
Jan 17, 2001
I do not believe that President-elect Bush or General Powell are isolationists. Far from it.
Jan 17, 2001
It seems to me we have to guard against the unilateralist approach to American foreign policy.
Oct 11, 2000
I have been here 28 years. I have never threatened a filibuster. I have never threatened to hold up legislation. I have never once stopped the business on the floor--not that that is not every Senator's right. I have never done that. I…
Oct 3, 2000
Another question is how to tell that a U.S. intelligence activity ``is authorized by an appropriate official of the United States Government, acting within the scope of the official duties of that official and in compliance with Federal…
Oct 3, 2000
My final question to the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence relates to how other countries may view section 305. I interpret section 305 as governing only the interpretation of a certain set of U.S. criminal laws enacted in…
Oct 3, 2000
My second concern is that section 303 not be used as a justification for investigations of journalists. Our republic depends upon a free press to inform the American people of significant issues, including issues relating to foreign policy…
Sep 26, 2000
Isn't that amazing--415 votes? You only get that on resolutions, say, for motherhood and the flag.
Sep 26, 2000
In fairness, 5 of those 14 judges were not confirmed. We laid out why, and there was a great controversy about it. We debated it and we laid out why. Again, I never question the right of the Senate or an individual Senator to say, I do not…
Sep 26, 2000
I think the long answer to a very short question is, this is an outrage. It is an outrage that she is not on the bench now. And I would hope that sanity would prevail.
Sep 26, 2000
We have freed up, as a consequence of that, not only the bodies but the souls of millions of people and thousands and thousands of women. As the Senator well knows, the hotline that she and Senator Kennedy, Senator Specter, and others have…
Sep 26, 2000
I know for me, the single most important thing I have ever been involved in, and have ever done, and I care more about than anything I have ever been involved in, is this legislation. The thing I am most proud of is that it has become a…
Sep 26, 2000
I am willing to predict, if we can agree to bring it up without amendment, we will get 85 to 95 votes. This is in the category of a no brainer. The Violence Against Women Act expires this Sunday, September 30. It took me 8 years to get…
Sep 8, 2000
I have had questions about this project, the planning process, its economic justification, and the potential for environmental harm for a number of years. I further understand that the State of Delaware's capital bond bill committee in…
Jul 13, 2000
Are we going to spend $40 billion to provide for the opportunity for this to truly be an egalitarian system, a meritocracy? When we graduated from school in the early 1960s and late 1960s, and when our parents did in the 1930s, you needed…
Jun 21, 2000
The Senator is aware the President's budget calls for spending $6 billion in drug treatment and prevention, including $31 million for substance abuse block grants; that is $54 million on targeted capacity expansion programs, $37 million…
Jun 21, 2000
Why doesn't the Senator have an amendment to take $1 billion out of the highway trust fund or $1 billion out of the education budget or $1 billion out of NIH or $1 billion out of the Department of Energy?
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