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| Position on the Economy: |
| Wants to repeal the Bush tax cuts for top 1 percent of earners, extend middle-class cuts and freeze estate taxes at 2009 levels. Supports overhauling alternative minimum tax for the middle class but has voted against full repeal. |
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| Proposed suspending the state's gasoline tax this year. Proposed giving every Alaskan a $1,200 check from state accounts that were bulging with windfall revenues from the state's tax on oil production. |
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| Position on the death penalty: |
| Supports death penalty “as a crime-fighting technique.” |
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| On her campaign Web site, said:"If the Legislature passed a death penalty law, I would sign it. We have a right to know that someone who rapes and murders a child or kills an innocent person in a drive-by shooting will never be able to do that again" |
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| Current Position: |
| Vice President of the United States |
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| erstwhile Governor of Alaska |
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| University of Delaware, Syracuse University |
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| Married to: |
| Neilia Hunter (deceased), Jill Tracy Jacobs |
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| Position on Abortion: |
| “Strongly” supports Roe v. Wade, but opposes public funding for abortion. Voted yes to a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions. Voted against parental notification for minors who get out-of-state abortions. |
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| Strongly anti-abortion. Supported bills to outlaw late-term abortions and to require parental consent for abortions in Alaska. Is a member of an anti-abortion organization called Feminists for Life. |
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| Position on gun control: |
| Introduced bill to renew ban on assault weapons and to close the so-called gun-show loophole by requiring gun show sales to have background checks. |
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| Is an avowed supporter of the right to bear arms, a member of the National Rifle Association and a rifle hunter of Alaskan game. |
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| Position on gay marriage: |
| Opposes same-sex marriage but supports civil unions. Opposes constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Says he supports the same federal employee benefits for same-sex couples as for married couples. |
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| Supported a 1998 Alaska constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. |
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| Books Authored: |
| Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics |
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| Serves on committees: |
| Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary January 4, 1987 – January 3, 1995. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations |
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| No senate committees (she is not a senator). |
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| Position on Healthcare: |
| Wants to insure all under age 21, allow families to buy into SCHIP, cover children in families up to 3 times the poverty level ($61,950 for family of 4), create a pool of private plans similar to that for federal workers. |
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| Supports competition in health care, and laws allowing patients access to better information about prices. In 2008, said she was considering incentives for employers to provide insurance, based on the free market. |
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| Position on Global Warming: |
| Wants to create a 5-year, $50 billion project for energy and climate change to finance research into discovering alternative energy sources and developing technologies. Opposes domestic drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
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| Favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying that Alaska was brought into the United States for its resources. Signed a bill to create a "Renewable Energy Fund" in Alaska. |
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| Position on Immigration: |
| Supports a path to legalization for illegal immigrants that includes learning English and paying fines. Wants to toughen penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants. Would create a guest worker program. |
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| Position on Iraq: |
| Voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing the Iraq war, but now says that was a mistake.Opposed 2007 troop buildup in Iraq, and last September, proposed withdrawing most forces from Iraq by the summer of 2008, while leaving a small force behind. |
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| Position on Iran: |
| Supports direct engagement with Iran “to exploit fissures within the government and between the government and the people.” Called for “hard-headed diplomacy” with “coordinated international sanctions”. |
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| Position on social security: |
| Opposes private savings accounts. Supports lifting the ceiling on Social Security payroll taxes, currently $102,000 a year. |
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| Position on judicial nominations: |
| Would make sure that his nominees for the Supreme Court “shared his values” and understood “that there is a right to privacy in the United States Constitution.” |
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| Position on Guantánamo Bay: |
| Wants to close prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, restore habeas corpus and try detainees in federal courts, not military tribunals. Co-sponsored bill that would release all prisoners who have not been charged (nearly all of them). |
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| Position on domestic wiretapping: |
| Has called the warrantless wiretapping program authorized by President George W. Bush “unconstitutional” and “an illegal expansion of presidential power.” |
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| Children: |
| Beau Biden, Robert Hunter Biden, Naomi Christina Biden, Ashley Blazer Biden |
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| Residence: |
| Number One Observatory Circle (Official); Wilmington, Delaware (Private) |
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| Introduction (from Wikipedia): |
| Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States. He was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on Jan 15, 2009. |
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