Joseph Biden

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Joe Biden
U.S. Senior Senator, Delaware

Party	Democratic
Assumed office (class 2) January 3, 1973 Serving with Thomas Carper
Preceded by	J. Caleb Boggs
Committees	Foreign Relations Judiciary
Born	November 20, 1942
Spouse	Jill Tracy Jacobs
Religion	Roman Catholic

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Joe Biden is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. Biden was one of seven candidates for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 presidential election. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972.

Biden has recently earned the wrath of Democrats because he supported President Bush's second term Bankruptcy Reform legislation — a major piece of corporate welfare for the highly profitable credit card industry — at the expense of working Americans. (Many Democrats add "D-MBNA" as a suffix to Senator Biden's name to indicate his apparent fondness for the credit card issuer MBNA.) Grassroots Democrats also criticize Senator Biden's lack of party discipline, such as his failure to join his fellow Democrats in calling for an investigation into the Jeff Gannon scandal.

Senator Biden ran for President in 2008, but he withdrew after the Iowa caucus.

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Military Service

Biden has not served in the military. He was drafted for Vietnam, but he failed his physical exam. [1]

Committees

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, (Chairman)
- As Chairman of the full committee Biden is an ex officio member of each subcommittee.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Subcommittee on Antitrust Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
- Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, (Chairman)
- Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
- Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship
- Subcommittee on Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security
- Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Co-Chairman)